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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

• fudged71 14y ago
  Irony: how do you pronounce that? IPA isn't exactly readable.
  • InclinedPlane 14y ago
    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=shibboleth http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=shibboleth
  • andor 14y ago
    RTFM ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key
    • fudged71 14y ago
      Right, but it's unintuitive and takes a while to decrypt. Browser extension idea: hover over IPA to see only the relevant glyph pronunciations.
      • vacri 14y ago
        Hovering over it does reveal English approximations in the wikipedia article. Did you try? I'm running FF19 and the only addon is NoScript.
        • fudged71 14y ago
          Well I'll be damned!! Wikipedia just keeps getting better :)
  • jholman 14y ago
    1) It's pronounced like a native English speaker would guess. SHIH buh leth. 2) IPA is tough, but in Wikipedia's case, if you mouse-over each IPA symbol, it'll give you a "/ʃ/ 'sh' in 'shy'" and so on.
• mirkules 14y ago
  Thanks for the light bulb. I honestly thought Randall Munroe made that term up in http://xkcd.com/806/ http://xkcd.com/806/ Edit: just realized it was cleverly modified to include "leet". And edit 2: which I then realized is a shibboleth inside a shibboleth.
  • dspeyer 14y ago
    While it does produce leet, the "th" sound doesn't exist in the original hebrew, so it's kind of appropriate.