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Word meanings and usage.........
So, when someone sneezes, it's common to say, "Bless you." This is a shortened version of "God Bless you." I've heard various proposals for how this term came into vogue.
One example is that before many of our medicinal advances, a sneeze could indicate that you had caught something deadly, and it was the wish of the person who heard the sneeze to send you their best wishes (i.e. they didn't want you to die from whatever it was causing the sneeze). So, to do this, they asked for your blessing. "Bless you."
Have you heard any other stories for the various reactions to a person's sneeze? Have any thoughts of your own on the matter?
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