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  2. Response to sneezing - Wikipedia

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    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 , nothing is generally said after a sneeze except for when expressing concern when the person is sick from a cold or otherwise.

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it mainly means "fashionable", "trendy", but is occasionally a culinary term usually meaning something cooked with carrots and onions (as in bœuf à la mode). It can also mean "in the style or manner [of]" [ 61 ] (as in tripes à la mode de Caen ), and in this acceptation is similar to the shorter expression " à la ".

  4. Why people say 'bless you' after sneezing - AOL

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    It's allergy season again, so there's a lot of sneezing going around. Sneezing can be caused by crazy things like being too full, seeing a bright light, or even orgasm. For how common sneezing is ...

  5. God bless you - Wikipedia

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    God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you [1]) is a common English phrase generally used to wish a person blessings in various situations, [1] [2] especially to "will the good of another person", as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction.

  6. Swiss French - Wikipedia

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    bless you (when someone sneezes) septante [6] soixante-dix: seventy: In Swiss French, as opposed to the French of France, words for seventy, eighty and ninety are similar in construction to the ones used for thirty up to sixty. service: je t'en/vous en prie: you're welcome: From "à votre service" meaning "at your service". services: couverts ...

  7. Slang - Wikipedia

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    A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

  8. Blessing - Wikipedia

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    The term also appears in other forms, such as blēdsian (before 830), blētsian from around 725 and blesian from around 1000, all meaning to make sacred or holy by a sacrificial custom in the Anglo-Saxon pagan period, originating in Germanic paganism; to mark with blood. [1] Due to this, the term is related to the term blōd, meaning 'blood'. [1]

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