Shibboleth (6228 bytes)
1: The [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] [[word]] '''Shibboleth''' literally means "ear of wheat". In the [[Bible...
3: ...e said, "Nay," then said they unto him, "Say now 'Shibboleth.'" And he said "Sibboleth," for he could not fram...
5: ...are likely members of [[science fiction fandom]]. Shibboleths can also be customs or practices, such as [[male...
7: ...ral touchstones and shared experience can also be shibboleths of a sort. For example, people about the same ag...
9: ==Some shibboleths==

A is A (170 bytes)
1: '''A is A''' is a [[shibboleth]] used by adherents of [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Objectivi...

Dominator culture (918 bytes)
5: McKenna's detractors see the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] for wooly thinking associated with [[dark green...

Rövarspråket (1170 bytes)
7: ...often be something of a [[tongue-twister]] or a [[shibboleth]].

Whangamata (997 bytes)
3: ''[[Shibboleth]]:'' People aware of other place names of [[Maori...

Airstone (1316 bytes)
3: ...reference, although the question is sometimes a [[shibboleth]] in [[internet forum|Internet discussions]].

Palestinian Arabic (1442 bytes)
3: The pronunciation of ''qaf'' serves as a [[shibboleth]] to distinguish its three main dialects: it beco...

Levin, New Zealand (1249 bytes)
16: '''''[[Shibboleth]]''': The town's name is not pronounced like the ...

South Wairarapa (district), New Zealand (1429 bytes)
9: ''[[Shibboleth]]'': New Zealanders tend to refer to "The Wairara...

Safe, sane and consensual (1444 bytes)
12: ...titled ''Safe Sane Consensual: The Evolution of a Shibboleth''.

Screenname (1879 bytes)
3: ... use of 'screenname' is often used as a reverse [[shibboleth]] by old timers to identify those who are newer t...

Vulgarism (1836 bytes)
5: ...|English]] usage. Like most vulgarisms, it is a [[shibboleth]], defining the status of the speaker.

1989 Whitbread Awards (1660 bytes)
27: *[[Michael Donaghy]], ''Shibboleth''

Jean Henri Georges Laguerre (2003 bytes)
5: ...ce'', but when Clemenceau refused to impose any [[shibboleth]] on the radical party he became director of ''La...

Tolkien research (5143 bytes)
35: .... [[1968]]) VT 41, p. 7–10 (A part of ''the Shibboleth of Fëanor'' was published in [[The Peoples of Mid...

Nucular (2596 bytes)
9: ...side, the pronunciation is a revealing cultural [[shibboleth]]. ''Nucular'' is especially common in the Americ...

Oamaru (1964 bytes)
16: '''[[Shibboleth]]''': The local southern dialect of [[Maori langu...

77 (number) (2561 bytes)
33: ... the border with [[Norway]], "77" was used as a [[Shibboleth]] ([[password]]), because the tricky pronunciatio...

Scheveningen (2262 bytes)
28: The name ''Scheveningen'' had been used as a [[shibboleth]] during [[WWII]] to identify German spies: they ...

Bluff (2546 bytes)
18: '''[[Shibboleth]]''': Although most New Zealanders simply know th...

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