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Gesundheit - Word of the Day - Dec 1, 2020

Myr

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Gesundheit - (interjection) - used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed

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It used to be that when you sneezed you'd hear 'gesundheit'.  Now when you sneeze it attracts a mask Nazi Karen hectoring you because you have allergies.

 

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drpaladin

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It's the one long German word many can speak

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Timothy M.

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In Denmark we say Prosit when someone sneezes. I'd love to hear what other countries use.

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German was spoken in the childhood homes of all four of my grandparents at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, so I heard Gesundheit! every time someone sneezed at my grandparent's homes....and I use it myself.

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Valkyrie

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2 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

In Denmark we say Prosit when someone sneezes. I'd love to hear what other countries use.

I've always said "Bless you" when someone sneezes. 

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