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Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shibboleth is pronounced just like it is spelled, but some languages do not have an "sh" phoneme. In the story, soldiers used the word shibboleth to identify foreigners trying to sneak into their territory. If they pronounced it "sibboleth," then the person was exposed as a foreigner.

Modern Greek is one such language. I introduced my friend Sharon to some Greek relatives, and they called her "Saron" so we all started calling her "Sauron."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do they shush in greek?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Not kidding, they hiss. It's fucking surreal if you're not expecting it.