I was aiming at the Americans with 'gesundheit' - as McGrath says, we all say 'bless you' in England. Difference is probably the quantity of German Jews who emigrated to the US.

Re German, our teacher at school told us a language-related joke (which you need to know German to get):

There's 3 groups in a bar, the English, the French and the Germans. The English are telling jokes, and everyone's laughing. The French are telling jokes, and everyone's laughing. And the Germans are telling jokes, but no-one's laughing, because they haven't got to the verb yet.

And English is still acquiring new words - there's additions to the Oxford English Dictionary each year. One recent addition was 'qi', since the English word 'spirit' doesn't quite cover the concept. This was instantly seized on by a flurry of crazed Scrabble players, desperate to get rid of their Q's! :-)

Anyone read Douglas Adams' "Meaning of Liff"? My favourite is 'Thrupp', meaning 'to place a ruler on a desk and make it go bdbdbdbbdbdbdrrrdrrrrrr'.

Grab.