McGrath, I can't say if it's true or not. It sort of sounds logical. Best to allow one or two brave souls in the room with you to hear, when you have a cold! Or it could be: "Hurry, Mavis, with the cassette recorder - there's a sneeze a-comin'!" An alternative is to carry a memo-recorder with you and fascinate the public by recording your own sneezes! I never really had to try it out because I have a fairly low speaking voice, and accepted what I was told. But on the odd occasions I have tried to hear, it seems to be "something like". I mean, when the mother of all sneezes is on the way, you don't start to think, "Oh, I had better listen to this," do you?

How considerate will your wife be if you tell her you are conducting scientific research?

mouldy