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Shibboleth

For other uses, see Shibboleth (disambiguation).
A New Orleans resident challenges out-of-towners who had come to protest against the 2017 removal of the Robert E. Lee Monument. The out-of-towners' inability to pronounce "Tchoupitoulas Street" according to the local fashion would be a shibboleth marking them as outsiders.

A shibboleth (/ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, -ɪθ/ ;[1][2] Biblical Hebrew: שִׁבֹּלֶת, romanized: šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.[3][4][5] Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining traditional segregation, or protecting from real or perceived threats.

  1. ^ Jones, Daniel (2003) [1917], Peter Roach; James Hartmann; Jane Setter (eds.), English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 3-12-539683-2
  2. ^ "Shibboleth". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.
  3. ^ Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th ed, (Oxford University Press, 1990), 1117.
  4. ^ Merriam-Webster Dictionary, shibboleth, accessed online 22 September 2015.
  5. ^ Collins English Dictionary, shibboleth, accessed online 22 September 2015.

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