Posted on 06/02/2005 4:52:40 AM PDT by secret garden
Word For The Day, Thursday, June 2, 2005
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
shibboleth \SHIB-uh-lith; -leth\, noun
1. A word or pronunciation that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons from another.
2. A word or saying identified with a group or cause; a slogan; a catchword.
3. A saying or belief identified with a particular group and usually regarded by outsiders as meaningless or untrue.
4. A custom, practice, behavior, etc. regarded as distinctive of a particular group. / 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. --Elizabeth Austin, "A small plea to delete a ubiquitous expletive: can't we all get along without the 'f' word?" [1]US News & World Report, April 6, 1998
Newspapers accused the West of trying to foment anti-Russian feelings and revive the cold war, substituting the old "Soviet threat" with the new shibboleth "Russian mafia." --Michael Satchell, "Kremlin gilt - or is it guilt?" [2]US News & World Report, September 20, 1999
Most cases, she says, involve the charges of secular humanism -- a "shibboleth invented by far-right organizations and others who object to textbooks, library books and curriculum materials that do not promote their particular brand of religion." --Thomas S. Elliott, "Fight heats up over censoring schoolbooks," [3]US News & World Report, February 20, 1984
Class size is another shibboleth: First, small class sizes do not increase learning, and, second, class sizes have become quite small anyway. --Jay Nordlinger, "The Anti-Excusers," [4]National Review, October 27, 2003
This could not be stated, because the doctrines in the name of which the revolution was carried out -- and which, ironically enough, the revolution did so much to expose and discredit -- were too strongly ingrained as official radical shibboleths to which lip-service was still paid. --Isaiah Berlin, [5]The Sense of Reality
Christmas church attendance will be the last shibboleth of Christian devotion in Europe to fall: it has a wealth of sentiment, mid-winter cheer and good tunes to keep pulling the crowds. --Madeleine Bunting, "Paralysed by panic," [6]Guardian, December 20, 2004
Etymology: Shibboleth is from Hebrew shibboleth, "stream, flood," from the use of this word in the Bible ([7]Judges 12:4-6) as a test to distinguish Gileadites from Ephraimites, who could not say 'sh' but only 's' as in 'sibboleth'.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
If the lefties can persist in the shibboleth of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, surely turnabout is fair play.]
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
and unless he is printing out the threads from FR to give to her, how is it hurting her? you act like an idiot and you will have consequences following therefrom. expect it. and given the horrible news and situations posted daily on FR, these threads were a welcome respite!
Happy birthday. ;)
1. I go lie in front of Emergency at the hospital until they have the police come and throw me in jail. I then tell the police about my back, and we can't have our prisoners suffering, can we? So they'll rush me back to the hospital and as a prisoner I'll be fixed instantly! I'm not sure this'll be worth the AIDS resulting from the obligatory homosectionality in jail...
2. I've switched the setting on my mouse so I can use it with my left hand. That way, I'll get carpel tunnel in my left hand, and with my right hand already buggered I can go on long term disability!
Whaddya think?
Later...
can you fake going mental and then they will have to examine you physically and deal with you? i think you can do a pretty decent job of going mental. take the scissors to your hair, buy a bus ticket out of town and then claim you were raped by a hispanic couple... oh wait, they may have heard that one already...
My boobs aren't big enough for that one to work.
buy a wonderbra and wing it...
That should take care of the going mental part too, good thinking!
Well now, let me be the judge of..........oh wait. You're Argh. Never mind.
Well, my hand's sore again, see you later.
I shan't ask.
just sent you some pix.
You mean a mansierre...it's a Seinfeld thing, xs. ;)
Weekend at Markie's?
the daughter looks enough like him, that she could carry it off....
We're finally home from kid fun and a trip to the vet to drain the bank account. All of the animals are okay and I got a prescription to mail order the next set of meds. The overhead at the vet is astronomical. A++ on the homework.
A++
Thank you for the nice grade!
I'm going to get a prescription so I can mail order Husky girl's Revolution when I take her to the vet for her annual shots later this month. I was appalled when one of my neighbors told me how much cheaper it is by mail...
Go for the left handed mouse trick-much less stressful than jail...
My hubby opted for physical therapy rather than surgery for carpal tunnel when he was still in the military-he is still satisfied with the results ten years later.
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