Talk:Gabriel Harvey

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Need confirmation, but could be a significant bit a trivia related to Gabriel Harvey.

From a sermon by Don Southworth:

Goodbye is a relatively new word.  The word first appeared in a letter written
by someone named Gabriel Harvey in 1575.  Harvey contracted the more traditional
“God be with ye” to “godbwye” and over the course of the next 300 years goodbye
slowly became the words we use when we part.  According to the Century Dictionary,
goodbye was “originally a pious form of valediction, used in its full significance,
but now a mere conventional formula without meaning, used at parting.”

--Samatva 13:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)