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Bookmark or Share- etymology - What is the origin of "shh"? - English Language & Usage ...When restricting ourselves to the English phoneme repertoire, this leaves us with fff, hhh, sss, shh and thh (IPA: f, h, s, ʃ, θ). Of these, hhh is confusable with abnormal breathing and (in my personal opinion) fff, sss and thh stand out more against ambient sound than shh, which is acustically similar to white noise.
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- single word requests - How to describe gesture to shut up? - English ...The first term that came to my mind was shh sign, but that won't be any less subject to interpretation than hush sign, shush sign, or be-quiet sign. I've seen the gesture you descibed used in an attempt to halt a conversation, or to exhort the participants to speak more quietly, but not necessarily shut up.
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- interjections - Is "shh" a word and why? - English Language & Usage ...Shh is a word. According to Merriam-Webster, a word is: a speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use. M-W further says:
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