How did gesundheit work its way into common American usage? From Wikipedia: In German, Gesundheit ( [to your] "Health") is said after a sneeze This is sometimes used in the United States The expression arrived in America with early German immigrants, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch, and doubtless passed into local English usage in areas with substantial German-speaking populations 1 The expression is first widely attested in American English as of
What are alternative responses for when someone sneezes? Both the German gesundheit and the Yiddish zay gezunt (phonetical English transliteration; in Yiddish it would be rendered "זײַ געזונט") have made significant inroads into English You are more likely to hear the Yiddish in places that had a significant Ashkenazi immigrant population (particularly certain areas of New York City), but both are more-or-less English now (or at least
Looking for the God Bless You of Hiccups FWIW :-) Saint Walburga, a Benedictine nun and healer in the 8th century, is the patron saint of coughing, and a hiccup is (at least etymologically) a kind of cough So perhaps you could invoke her name? Walburga! Sort of like Gesundheit!
ipa - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I thought my links to related questions were useful Here is a new one I found: i vs I in “pink” “ring” and here are the ones I linked to before: Regarding the “i” in “think” vs “bit”, i sound before ng and nk, Pronunciation of Bank, Tank, etc : Bay-nk, Ray-nk or Baen-k or Raen-k?, and Pronunciation of '-ing' endings as '-een'
Where did the phrase scat old cat come from? [duplicate] I found this googling: And what about scat!? Although this word is facing fierce competition from the German Gesundheit, DARE reports from its many interviews that scat's meaning of "begone" is frequently used in the South from Florida to Texas (heaviest in Kentucky) as "reference to the belief that the devil enters the body when a person sneezes "
politeness - God bless you equivalent for fart? - English Language . . . "God bless you" "Gesundheit" And others But with a fart you laugh, deride or come up with something clever to say on the spot Is there a commonly known polite word or phrase that says "I acknowledge your flatulence" similar to things said after sneezing?
grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I’m writing about De Beers and their policies, and I used the phrase “zero-tolerance policy on child labour ” I’ve also seen “zero-tolerance policy against child labour” used in similar contexts I
Origin and usage of safe and sound - English Language Usage Stack . . . It is the ancient and still used meaning of sound of free from injury, healthy that is used in the common saying "safe and sound": Sound: " free from special defect or injury," c 1200, from Old English gesund "sound, safe, having the organs and faculties complete and in perfect action," from Proto-Germanic *sunda-, from Germanic root *swen-to- "healthy, strong" Safe and sound: Out of danger
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