Here’s one of my favorite words from old English.
Bless you.
Exactly, that’s what it means. It means sneeze in old English.
I had no idea.
How do you spell that?
And why don’t we use it anymore?
F-N-E-O-Z-U-N-G.
Fneozung.
Fneozung.
Wow.
Sneeze.
Why don’t we say that anymore?
Oh, wow.
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