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The Origin of Goodbye

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"Goodbye" originated from the phrase "God be with ye" or "God be with you." It's a shortened and contracted form of that original blessing or valediction. Over time, "God be with ye" evolved through various spellings like "godbwye" and "God be wi' you" before becoming "goodbye." The "God" part also changed to "good" likely due to the influence of other common greetings like "good morning" and "good night." What a cool trivia! 👋🏼😄 Source:  OED

Most Commonly Tested JLPT N1 Japanese Vocabulary

Note: This list was generated by Google Bard, which stopped processing my prompt at 56 and I had to Google translate the remaining portions in red . I had asked for 100 words/phrases. Here are the most commonly tested JLPT N1 Japanese vocabulary words, with their English translations: ありません (arimasen) - does not exist いません (imasen) - is not here しません (shimasen) - does not do 来ません (kimasen) - does not come 行きません (ikenai) - does not go 見ません (mimasen) - does not see 聞きません (kimimasen) - does not hear 話しません (hanashimasen) - does not speak 思いません (omimasen) - does not think 食べません (tabemasen) - does not eat 飲みません (nomimasen) - does not drink あげません (agemasen) - does not give 取りません (torimasen) - does not take 食べません (tabemasen) - does not eat 寝ません (nemumasen) - does not sleep 立ちません (taminasen) - does not stand up 座りません (zashimasen) - does not sit down 歩きません (arukimasen) - does not walk 走りません (hashirimasen) - does not run 登りません (noborimase...