On spectrograms, this is the highest-frequency English phoneme with a noisy “TV static” appearance. The sonority sequencing principle is most often violated by clusters (15[1])that begin with this phoneme. In Maori borrowings, this is the frontmost phoneme that becomes /h/ (“aitch”), which also occurs in Spanish (15[2])syllable-final debuccalization. A prothetic vowel is added to word-initial clusters starting with this phoneme in Hindi, Persian, and (*) Western Romance languages. Most Latin American Spanish dialects, but not Peninsular ones, no longer distinguish the dental /θ/ (“theta”) from this consonant. (-5[1])In English, this is the only phoneme (10[1]-5[1])that can occur before a nasal in an onset or begin a three-consonant onset. (10[1])The most (10[1])common fricative across languages is this voiceless sibilant. For 10 points, name this consonant (10[1])whose IPA symbol is also the letter representing the usual English plural suffix. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])