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.

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

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.

" 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.

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.

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

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

Glide retention in these contexts has occasionally been held to be a shibboleth distinguishing Canadians from Americans.

" At the same time, an alliance between fundamentalist Muslims and the Socialist Workers Party led a leading member Lindsey German to reject gay rights as a " shibboleth " that must automatically be observed.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

Knowledge of the grasshopper was used as a shibboleth during the Revolution period.

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.

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.

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.

A shibboleth ( or ) is a word, sound, or custom that a person unfamiliar with its significance may not pronounce or perform correctly relative to those who are familiar with it.

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

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

His bright, daylight mind would whistle away such images ; ;

No doubt such a thing would be considered unpatriotic.

such a statement would be the rankest form of oversimplification.

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

only slightly more, perhaps, than a newspaper account of such an incident would give.

no client would ever think of asking him to do such things.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

This might put Wright in such a bad light before a court that Miriam would be awarded Taliesin ; ;

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.

At such times Thomas wondered when and where a counterattack would strike him.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

There such soggy acquiesence would be looked upon as a sure sign of deteriorating manhood.

It is at precisely such moments that he encounters a couple of undergraduates, faces alight, holding hands and talking happily as they come along, oblivious of him, or throwing him the most fleeting and casual of glances, such as they would give a tethered goat.

This would seem to indicate that we are trying neither `` to halt an influx of migrants '' nor are we `` setting up such standards for development that only the well-to-do could afford to buy land and build in the new sites ''.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.