And some sound more like a cough? Is it related to how we grow up subconsciously believing that a sneeze necessarily has to sound like ACHOO? I thought a pure sneeze didn’t have any of that CH sound, but just glottal? Like aahh-haah (the classic dad sneeze). Are those people not influenced by cultural habits? Think about it, babies don’t sneeze achoo until they grow older.
Or is it just the coincidencial interference of the tongue between the teeth?
What do you all think? Why don’t we sneeze like ahh-kooo, ahh- looo, ahh — pew etc.
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I’ve wondered this too for most people. My sneezes sound more like an inhale then sssshhhhhhhhshshshs lol I have no idea how to even convey the sound when I sneeze in text form
Honestly, I think it’s a subconscious imitation of how we hear it in cartoons.
Like you said, babies don’t do it, so I think that since the clichéd sneeze sound in cartoons and comedies is “Ah-CHOO,” that’s the sound we make when we’re pretending to sneeze, and it just subconsciously becomes the sound we make when we actually sneeze.
Which then raises the question: who are we all imitating? Who is the sneezer who became the comedy template for nose irritation? The “Wilhelm sneeze,” if you will?
My Mrs always stifles her sneeze. When she was pregnant it caused her a lot of pain, so I said “don’t stifle it, just do a big natural sneeze”, she didn’t know what I meant. I was astounded, she still to this day doesn’t know how to just do a big sneeze.