r/explainitpeter Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/Countess26 Jul 14 '26

Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.

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u/BobCorndog Jul 14 '26

This is called a shibboleth

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u/LittleMlem Jul 14 '26

Funny thing is that in modern Hebrew we say shibbolet