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[eda]

According to one story ,the saying started with St. Gregory...
Guess why it had started???
I am waiting for your creative guesses
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invasion is so succexy so succexy.

[RedRose]

who is St. Gregory?

[eda]

i dont know in details but he was a pope.a catholic one..
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invasion is so succexy so succexy.

[RedRose]

here in China. nobody would tell bless you when people sneeze. but we have a superstitious saying: if a puppy sneezes, then the weather will get unclouded. therefore, when a person sneezes, we would like to make joke with him/her. and we would say: thank you, it seems that we will have a perfect weather!

[eda]

[quote="RedRose"]here in China. nobody would tell [b]bless you[/b] when people sneeze. but we have a superstitious saying: if a puppy sneezes, then the weather will get unclouded. therefore, when a person sneezes, we would like to make joke with him/her. and we would say: thank you, it seems that we will have a perfect weather! [/quote]

ha very nice story:)
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invasion is so succexy so succexy.

[Michelle 1203]

Here in Japan nobody would tell you 'Bless You' when people sneeze.
Americans are using this word a lot. I hear this very often. It is their costum to say 'Bless you'. But for me when I sneeze I like people saying 'bless you' to me. it makes me relieve

[arabian_rose]

well we as muslims say god bless u to the person who sneezes because our prophet muhammad told us to do say u know it`s polite and even the sneezer would reply god bless us and u!
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it is who you are that makes you what you are!

[RedRose]

when Muslims say "god bless you" , actually that means Salam!

[admiral]

yeah, that means salam alaikum!
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I love inside you everyone else. I love the whole world because of you. I also love myself inside you"

[Cristi]

In spanish, or at least in my coutry, we say "�Salud!" which means health. It seems to me that the most logic explanation for this is that the person who tells it to you wants you to be healthy.

And with the "bless you"-thing that might be because the christians think that if 'God blesses you' you'll be healthy and away from danger, I guess. I'm not sure, though... since I'm not christian. But I can tell you my own hypothesis.

Bye!
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�PURA VIDA! Carpe Diem

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
Mark Twain.

[eda]

now i am telling you the story of it...
As i told before according to one story , the saying started with st. Gregory,who used to say it during a terrible plague.the plague was a dreadful disease transmitted by rats and there was no cure for it.The first sympton of this fatal disease was a sneeze.So if any one started sneezing during the time of a plague,it was almost certain that you would die.......

BLESS YOU ALL
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invasion is so succexy so succexy.

[Bob S.]

If you prefer, you can say gesundheit. I don't know about the U.K., but in the U.S., because of its immigration background, most people know it as an option to say after someone sneezes.

[Cristi]

And what is the pronunciation, Bob?
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�PURA VIDA! Carpe Diem

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
Mark Twain.

[VMVM]

[Bob S.]

Stellara can give you a proper answer, but I've usually heard it as:
geh-ZOONt'-height