The word " loch " is sometimes used as a shibboleth to identify natives of England, because the fricative sound is used in Scotland whereas most English people incorrectly pronounce the word like " lock ".

" Samuelson admitted that " shibboleth " is an imperfect term for this phenomenon, and sometimes used " fetish " as a synonym, though he complained that the latter " has too pejorative a ring.

The Dutch used the name of the port town Scheveningen as a shibboleth to tell Germans from the Dutch (" Sch " in Dutch is analyzed as the letter " s " and the digraph " ch ", producing the consonant cluster, while in German it is analyzed as the trigraph " sch ," pronounced ).

During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the word lollapalooza as a shibboleth to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R ; the word is also an American colloquialism that even a foreign person fairly well-versed in American English would probably mispronounce or be unfamiliar with.

There is anecdotal evidence of the name Scheveningen being used as a shibboleth during World War II to identify German spies: They would pronounce the initial " Sch " differently from Dutch native speakers.

The pronunciation of the city's name is a shibboleth, with some residents pronouncing it as " men-ner " and outsiders using the more conventional " men-tore ", while in the media and among most residents, " men-ter " is prominent.

The story is remembered for the killing of the fugitive Ephraimites who were identified by their accent ; they said the Hebrew word shibboleth as sibboleth.

Lima (, the name is a shibboleth ) is a town in Livingston County, New York, U. S. The population was 4, 305 at the 2010 census.

Of interest is the report of a shibboleth used by the native Sicilians to ferret out the Frenchmen.

Rødgrød med fløde is often jokingly used by Danes as a shibboleth, as it contains the soft " d " several times, which most foreigners find difficult to pronounce.

A well-known shibboleth is park the car in Harvard Yard, where the words park, Harvard and yard are pronounced,, and respectively.

This last difference is the standard shibboleth for distinguishing Sephardi from Ashkenazi ( and Yemenite ) Hebrew.

* The bridie is the subject of the Dundee Scots shibboleth, " Twa bridies, a plen ane an an ingin ane an a " ( Two bridies, a plain one and an onion one as well ).

This type of shibboleth is most frequently associated in the popular consciousness with college fraternities, fraternal orders and secret societies.

Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.

Today, in American English, a shibboleth also has a wider meaning, referring to any " in-crowd " word or phrase that can be used to distinguish members of a group from outsiders-even when not used by a hostile other group.

In October 1937 the Spanish word for parsley " perejil " was used as a shibboleth to identify Haitian immigrants living along the border in the Dominican Republic.

On the other hand, for an untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a tongue-twister or a shibboleth.

There were obvious linguistic differences between at least one portion of Joseph and the other Israelite tribes, since at a time when Ephraim were at war with the Israelites of Gilead, under the leadership of Jephthah, the pronunciation of shibboleth as sibboleth was considered sufficient evidence to single out individuals from Ephraim, so that they could be subjected to immediate death by the Israelites of Gilead.

During World War II in Sweden at the border with Norway, " 77 " was used as a shibboleth ( password ), because the tricky pronunciation in Swedish made it easy to instantly discern whether the speaker was native Swedish, Norwegian, or German.

According to legend, they identified the French by asking them to pronounce a Dutch phrase, ( shield and friend ) and everyone who had a problem pronouncing this shibboleth was killed.

" Hacker " can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense ( as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense ) as members of the computing community.

A shibboleth such as " lollapalooza " would be used by the sentry, who, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, would " open fire without waiting to hear the remainder ".

At the SWP's Marxism 2003 event she commented: " I'm in favour of defending gay rights, [...] but I am not prepared to have it as a shibboleth, by people who.

The first president of this Committee was former Supreme Court justice Owen J. Roberts, who said he considers national sovereignty a " silly shibboleth.

There are other good indicators that the use of " Scotch " has been " whitewashed out " and become a shibboleth.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

Yet, in summarizing a series of careful essays on the Yalta Conference, Forrest Pogue could find no basis for Yalta becoming `` a symbol for betrayal and a shibboleth for the opponents of Roosevelt and international cooperation ''.

Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a " nationalist shibboleth ", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum.

The accents of the tribes were distinctive enough even at the time of the confederacy so that when the Israelites of Gilead, under the leadership of Jephthah, fought the Tribe of Ephraim, their pronunciation of shibboleth as sibboleth was considered sufficient evidence to single out individuals from Ephraim, so that they could be subjected to immediate death by the Israelites of Gilead.

Modern researchers use the term " shibboleth " for all such usages, whether or not the people involved were using it themselves.

In-jokes can be a similar type of shared-experience shibboleth.

Yet another more pejorative usage involves underlining the fact that the original meaning of a symbol has in effect been lost and that the symbol now serves merely to identify allegiance, being described as nothing more than a " shibboleth.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson applied the term " shibboleth " in works including Foundations of Economic Analysis to an idea for which " the means becomes the end, and the letter of the law takes precedence over the spirit.

He had formerly written for Georges Clemenceau's organ La Justice, but when Clemenceau refused to impose any shibboleth on the radical party he became director of La Presse.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.