A passing thought

[vvvexation]

Is it just me, or does "shibboleth" sound like a word that really ought to have been coined by H.P. Lovecraft?

Comments

The dread shibboleth

[purchasemonkey.livejournal.com]

   I agree with you. It has always sounded like some sort of dread, eldritch, squamous, gibbering non-Euclidean thing to me.

Re: The dread shibboleth

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Gibbering! Yes!