This reminds me of a another one of my favorite little triumphs, up there with wielding a bully and a jerk against each other in high school gym class, this one coming in college. It was at a cafeteria table - this was the dining hall in Risley, which is quite nice - anyway, some folks I know were arguing about whether something I didn\u2019t know the first thing about should be considered a shibboleth.
Eventually there was a break in the conversation. I looked up, drawing attention, and spoke.
\u201cActually,\u201d I said, \u201cit\u2019s pronounced shibbolet.\u201d
Now that\u2019s cute enough but the thing that really makes this is that by saying that, and watching to see who chuckled and who looked confused, I was able to distinguish and sort the people who knew what they were talking about from the people who didn\u2019t.
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