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

[phantomdancer.livejournal.com]

It's actually a biblical phrase but I actually agree with you...

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I'm aware it's a biblical phrase. Hence the "ought to have."

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Golgotha always sounded to me like a monster that fought with Godzilla.

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[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

To say nothing of Gomorrah.

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[imnotbob.livejournal.com]

Hmm all these biblical words that sound like giant monsters...

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!

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

Hi V. :) I noticed you added me, I've added you back.

[khepriamon.livejournal.com]

The Dutch WW II equivalent of "shibboleth" was "Scheveningen." Both of which sound like things you'd say about 2:00 AM after the bars close. But I'm vulgar.

kae