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The sound "sh" (IPA ) occurs as an interjection, meaning "be quiet!", in many languages, including English and Polish. In Hebrew, it happens to be the first sound of the word sheket meaning "be quiet!". In Portuguese, it is the first sound of the (rude) interjection chiu (IPA ), meaning "be silent!", but it also occurs by itself, often with a longer duration (which may be accepted as less rude). The Swedish linguist and comedian Fredrik Lindström claims, in his book Jordens smartaste ord, that the interjection is found with the same meaning in nearly all of the world's languages. In Spanish they use a similar interjection: ch!
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