@Slumdum I know we have a German Pub thread. But when someone sneezes and someone
says gazoonhike is that German?
Yes. According to Merriam-Webster.

When English speakers hear
achoo, they usually respond with either
gesundheit or
God bless you. Gesundheit was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of
gesund ("healthy") and
-heit ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends.
God bless you had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger.
Gesundheit, at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
However, it is not to be confused with Guitentite,
(Good-and-tight) used to describe German girls.
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I guess, but it's a phrase many people say, sooo... Nooo?
What are you doing answering silly questions? It's time for our car ride...
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