In fact, the onomatopeic way of writing a sneeze is
ecci'

That explains something that has bothered me for a while!

It is now obvious to me that Jacob Epstein wished to call one of his sculptures simply, "Man" but, in the dust filled atmosphere of his studio, when he unveiled the masterpiece to awe-filled journalists, he actually said "Ecci!! - homo." Most unusually, the journalists got it all wrong, and thought he had used the Latin for "Behold! The Man!"