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shibboleth

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɪbəlɛθ/Part of speech nounSorted bbehhilostStarts with SEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת /שיבולת (šibbṓleṯ, “ear [of wheat] or stream, torrent”). Doublet of sebboleth and Middle English sebolech, both from Late Latin sebboleth in the Vulgate.

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  • In recent times, the correct treatment of initial h in speech has come to be regarded as a kind of shibboleth of social position.
  • He also declares that "th" is the veritable English shibboleth. He advises those Germans who cannot pronounce the sound correctly to pronounce it like "d," the symbol which he regularly uses for "th" in his lessons.
  • It's about time we abandoned the bourgeois shibboleth that earning money makes you a better person.

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