Well, that made me curious, so I googled it. I found this on Wikipedia: "Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The character is the source of the word "benedict", meaning a newly married man who has long been a bachelor. " Interesting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Brinks-Heath" <lois_heath@yahoo.com> To: "rootsweb illinois" <iladams@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:35 PM Subject: [ILADAMS] mystery word >I have discovered a mystery expression in several newspaper wedding >articles around 1900. They say the gentlemen "are now benedicts". Has >anyone heard of this expression before and it came to be? > Lois > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILADAMS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >