BENISON

PRONUNCIATION: (BEN-uh-zuhn/suhn)

MEANING: noun: A blessing; a benediction.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French beneison, from Latin benedicere (to bless), from bene (well) + dicere (to say). Earliest documented use: 1300.
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BEN'S SON - Adam or Hoss or Little Joe Cartwright

BERI SON - a new strain of thiamine deficiency disease, only half as deadly as the original

BAN IS ON - they just started enforcing the taboo