Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:50:03 -0500

From: Leo Horishny Leo_Horishny[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]POL.COM

Subject: Re: Gesundheit!



. 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

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



INTERESTING! I forgot about that, but it seems like a likely possibility.



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