(WJW) – God bless you. Gesundheit. Salute. No matter how you say it, the meaning behind it is the same. A sneeze is your body’s way of removing dirt, dust and pollen or other irritants from ...

“It’s probably a shortening of the longer phrase ‘(may) God bless you,'” she says. And why would God need to bless a sneezer? “The sneeze was seen as a sign of an illness that could be ...