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Here too, the migrant, mystic h has served as a social shibboleth.
Terry Jeffrey perpetuates an old shibboleth when he mentions Bill Clinton's "safe, legal, and rare" comment regarding abortion (see ). Jeffrey asks how we could want any good thing to be rare.
This kind of contextual sensitivity (a sensitivity that is as yet not sufficiently well understood) is far more important than that sort of abstract knowledge of the proper use of language that prompts certain of us to shiver at someone else's stumbling over a shibboleth.
That pronunciation is a shibboleth, or rather sibboleth, in English English in terms of “U” and “non-U”--as John Betjeman noted years ago in his cautionary poem How to Get On in Society , which ends: