{"id":18536,"date":"2019-11-28T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:25:44","slug":"atchoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18536","title":{"rendered":"Atchoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/atchoo.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Bless you!\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>When someone sneezes, you might say <strong>Bless you!<\/strong>, at least in English.<\/p>\n<p>In Spanish, I discovered the other day, you say <strong>\u00a1Jes\u00fas!<\/strong>. A Welsh friend told me this, and another friend thought it sounded like the Welsh phrase <strong>Ga i sws?<\/strong> (May I have a kiss?).<\/p>\n<p>In Welsh you might say <strong>Rhad arnat ti!\/arnoch chi!<\/strong> (Bless you!), <strong>Bendith y Tad!<\/strong> (Blessing of the Father!) or <strong>Bendith y mamau!<\/strong> (Blessing of the mothers!).<\/p>\n<p>In French you say <strong>\u00c0 tes\/vos souhaits !<\/strong> (As you wish!).<\/p>\n<p>In German you <strong>Gesundheit!<\/strong> (Health!)<\/p>\n<p>What about in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone sneezes, you might say Bless you!, at least in English. In Spanish, I discovered the other day, you say \u00a1Jes\u00fas!. A Welsh friend told me this, and another friend thought it sounded like the Welsh phrase Ga i sws? (May I have a kiss?). In Welsh you might say Rhad arnat ti!\/arnoch chi! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,116,10,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18536"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18549,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}