[sneak]

I have substituted "gesundheit" ("health") for "bless you" for this very reason.

[herewulf]

Likewise. It's pretty amazing how widespread a German word such as this managed to become.

[unsupp0rted]

At some point gesundheit made it into the zeitgeist and I feel schadenfreude for the people who said it wouldn't.

[Lio]

Well if any German word isn't kaputt we should definitely borrow it into English.

[dotancohen]

Why not simply say "Health" then? How is cultural assimilation any better than a phrase that has not had religious connotations for a century and a half?

[thombat]

Sounds like a shortened "Your health!" which as a toast should be accompanied by all present having a charged glass in their hand.