Response to sneezing
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response-to-sneezing-205-14901151
title:
Response to sneezing
text:
In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health. There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the context of sneezing. In non-English-speaking cultures, words connoting good health or a long life are often used instead of "bless you," though some also use references to God. In certain languages such as Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean, no
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
List of responses to sneezes in multiple languages
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_to_sneezing
date created:
2009-11-19T18:43:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T12:15:16Z
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