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Lara Cowell on 24 May 21Achoo! Atchoum! Hatschi! Etcì! Why does the same body reaction--a sneeze--produce different sounds all over Europe? Different European languages use a different onomatopeia to transcribe into words the simple act of sneezing. And the proper social responses to sneezing in the various countries mean different things and encode varied cultural beliefs about the act.