Goodbye and Bless You!

Emily Morgan
Linguist
Published in
4 min readSep 16, 2020

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The holy origins of common expressions

Image by Myriam Zilles from Pixabay

Today, we’re investigating the origins of two very common, throwaway phrases that I know you use all the time. But where do they come from? As so often in English, religion is involved.

Bless you

Aa-choo!

Bless you!

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Emily Morgan
Linguist

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