Shibboleth Puns

Just out of curiosity, is Shibboleth sign-on named after a person?

I’ve had the opportunity to go out to cocktail bars twice in the last few months and both times I’ve tried to communicate to the bartender that I make cocktails at home as a hobby so go hog wild and make me something weird or interesting. I have utterly failed, having received in response a Blue Lagoon and a cloyingly sweet Mai-Tai-esque thing.

What’s a good shibboleth I can use to tip off a professional bartender that no, really, they can make me something interesting or alternatively, that I can determine fronm the response that I should just order off the menu?

I have noticed (coming from the British side of things) that since the TRAP-BATH split was so irregular and therefore hard to predict, Americans who can otherwise imitate an RP accent very well often reveal themselves by pronouncing what would be an RP /ɑː/ as an /æ/. British actors don’t seem to have this problem with American English, since it’s much easier to reverse: outside a few special cases, generally just go with /æ/ where you’d have an /ɑː/.

Are there any other examples of asymmetric sound changes causing issues like this, maybe in other languages? And what is the most common ‘mistake’ Brits make the other way, or in other varieties of English?

I've been trying to log in to Box to access my term paper but can't seem to get to the shibboleth login screen. Does anyone know how to access documents in Google Drive without going through shibboleth login??

So, assuming shibboleth is being used at business for primary authentication to various on prem and cloud providers. Microsoft 365 also in use, with of course azure providing some type of auth. Almost never put anything behind azure ad auth.

With that said, a vendor I was speaking with today thought we were migrating to Azure and shibboleth would be only for legacy applications.

My question is, should we be considering migrating to Azure authentication over shibboleth, and why? I know the benefits of Azure like conditional access, but more focused on why not shibboleth.

This is a thought experiement from r/askanamerican. On the r/askanamerican thread, they asked "how would you expose a spy from another country".

How would you expose the grifter?

Heads up all, if you use Shibboleth to log into university services (required for most), it's currently timing out and throwing 504 Gateway Timeout errors and 502 Bad Gateway errors. So there's a good chance that you won't be able to access any Shibboleth-related services.

Edit: Yep, definitely down. See this System Status page for details. https://status.illinois.edu/SystemStatus/jsp/view_events.jsp?eventId=5049&callFrom=currentEventPage&pageId=CC

Edit: It's back up!

For example, native English speakers tend to aspirate their Ts and Ps, how they pronounce vowels or how speakers of Germanic Languages tend to sound robotic when speaking Portuguese until they reach fluency.

So my understanding of a 'shibboleth' is that it is a cultural signifier that can identify someone as part of a community or not. It's the term used for this as the hebrew word shibboleth is difficult for a non-hebrew speaker to say and this was used to identify Hebrews at some point in history.

However when I googled how to pronounce it, it was pronounced just as it's spelled.

Is my understanding of the term shibboleth wrong? Is my understanding of the pronunciation of the word wrong? If not, how has this come to pass? Is it something to do with the way the word has been transliterated?

I feel like that gives us a certain degree of sophistication

(also for those who say it's definitively pronounced like "kettle", technically it's pronounced with sounds that don't exist in English, so we're all saying it wrong already and we might as well change the vowels as well as the consonants!)

It warms my cold, dead heart every time. President Bartlet's love for Charlie is so pure and good. I have mixed feelings about that episode in general but that moment easily redeems my other qualms.