Word to the Wise: Shibboleth

By Early To Rise | Thu, Apr 24, 2008 |

  

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"Shibboleth" (SHIB-uh-lith) – from the Hebrew – is a word, saying, custom, or belief identified with a group or cause.

Example (as used by Elizabeth Austin in U.S. News & World Report): "In the late ’60s, however, the loud, open use of the ‘F’ word became a true shibboleth, dividing the student radicals from the Establishment ‘pigs’ they delighted in tweaking."

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