Reply #14: That's how it's spelled in Polish, according to my mother, LOL! [View All]

[Rhiannon12866]

I asked and it took her a moment. Polish is her first language, but she's obviously rusty. It's pronounced more like naz-druve-yah. This also makes a very nice toast, which I've used! Feel free to use it, as well, for sneezing or a toast!:D

Sneezing deserves special treatment because people are so freaked out about illness. My other, WASP grandmother, who I was especially close to, gave me a book, commissioned by her aunt, which traces her family from the time that they arrived in this country, in the 1600s, of little interest to anyone but family, but I've poured over it for years, reading names and what happened to people. My grandmother's grandmother gave birth to 14 children, over 20 years. But only 6 made it to adulthood, most died in their first two years, from illness, and one committed suicide in his 20s. No wonder people became paranoid and superstitious about a sneeze!
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