--Apple-Mail-7--30940362 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset -ASCII; formatðïwed On Feb 7, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Martin DeMello wrote: > Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote: >> >> "Shibboleth" is also a shibboleth, I guess. Rather >> self-referential. > > More etymology than self-reference - "a shibboleth" is simply a word > that fulfils the same role "shibboleth" did in its original context. > > martin > Everytime I see "shibboleth" all I can think of is HP Lovecraft. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn --Apple-Mail-7--30940362--