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Tired of getting repeatedly shushed by Tympany (as seen here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6496298/ ), KT and Pinkie Pie decide to fight fire with fire, and by "fight" I mean "shush" and by "fire" I mean "librarian", by getting a librarian of their own: Twilight Sparkle! MUHAHAHA-- oops, sorry. Muhahaha.
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Y'know, I have to say I never liked that sound. I never feel like I'm spelling it properly! I mean if you make the sound and listen to yourself, you're not making an s sound or an h sound, you're kind of making both at once but still different... so it's more of a shshshshsh sound, but still.... not quite right. There should be a letter just for that sound, so it can be spelled more accurately.
That's the trouble with English; it uses the Latin alphabet, and has to use digraphs (two-letter combos) for sounds that Latin didn't have, like the "sh" sound.
There is a letter for the sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet; it's called "esh" and it looks like this: ʃ. (If your system can't display that, it looks like a stretched 's' or integral sign.) Some foreign alphabets have special letters for the sound, too; Czech and many other Slavic languages use Š, an s with a hachek over it; Turkish and some other west Asian languages use Ş, an s with a cedilla;
Russian and various other languages in or near the former Soviet sphere use the Cyrillic alphabet, which spells "sh" with the letter Ш, called 'sha', and so on.
As for the English problem, I think repeating the H, as in SHHHH, is the best solution. If you repeat the S, as in SSSSH, it has a tendency to read wrong; it looks like SSSSS capped with a final SH, as if you've momentarily forgotten you're a librarian instead of a snake.
There is a letter for the sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet; it's called "esh" and it looks like this: ʃ. (If your system can't display that, it looks like a stretched 's' or integral sign.) Some foreign alphabets have special letters for the sound, too; Czech and many other Slavic languages use Š, an s with a hachek over it; Turkish and some other west Asian languages use Ş, an s with a cedilla;
Russian and various other languages in or near the former Soviet sphere use the Cyrillic alphabet, which spells "sh" with the letter Ш, called 'sha', and so on.
As for the English problem, I think repeating the H, as in SHHHH, is the best solution. If you repeat the S, as in SSSSH, it has a tendency to read wrong; it looks like SSSSS capped with a final SH, as if you've momentarily forgotten you're a librarian instead of a snake.
Ah, well then it's okay. A proper librarian doesn't 'shhh' people anyway. They silence them with a glare. A glare which says to all, "Silence mortal! Else I shall smite thee!" Although I'm not sure what the lack of glare says about Twilight. Maybe it doesn't count since she isn't in her library?
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