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Bookmark or Share- How did "gesundheit" work its way into common American usage?A la votre sante, Gesundheit, or Aloha nui, as you choose." It's tempting to see the confusion of the narrator of the following item—from the Indianapolis [Indiana] Journal (May 4, 1902)—as arising primarily from the connection of Gesundheit with drinking beer and offering toasts: An Embarrassing Situation. Philadelphia Record.
- etymology - Origin and usage of "safe and sound" - English Language ...It is the ancient and still used meaning of sound of free from injury, healthy that is used in the common saying "safe and sound": " free from special defect or injury," c.1200, from Old English gesund "sound, safe, having the organs and faculties complete and in perfect action," from Proto-Germanic *sunda-, from Germanic root *swen-to ...
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