Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 09:53:05 EDT

From: BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: Gesundheit!



From: NAME: David Bergdahl

FUNC: English

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Terry's comment and the previous listings suggest to me that what's happened to

"Gesundheit" and "Bitte!" are similar: both get anglicized in Cinn. I wonder if

the famed anti-german sentiment which Mencken records is responsible: the same

process which around WWI produced "liberty cabbage" for Sauerkraut &c.

calqued "Bitte!" to please and replaced "Gesundheit"with "Bless you!"



David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens

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