good bye---where from (origin)?

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good bye---where from (origin)?

2007-01-28 08:44:09 · 2 answers · asked by HAROLD Z 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations

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People were happy to get rid of their house guests. That's why it's "good" bye not the other way around. It sounded enough like "God be with ye" that the guests felt it appropriate to offer to their OWN guests at the end of a visit, and so it stuck around a few centuries more. . . .

2007-01-28 13:39:07 · answer #1 · answered by J Candid 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋

God be with you!

2007-01-28 09:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋