The word "sneeze" was originally spelled "fneze" or "fnese". The respelling was adopted because the "s" sound sounded more like a sneeze.

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@qikipedia This fact seems… dubious given f and s were often written in a very similar fashion. I suspect the real reason the respecting was adopted is because this style of writing the letter s was dropped. english.stackexchange.com/ques

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