Shibboleth (from Hebrew, שבולת) is a speech pattern that identifies a particular linguistic group, functioning practically as a type of linguistic password. History Shibboleth is the transliteration of a Hebrew word, which some translate it as a “stream, torrent of water”, while other as “ear of corn”. It is written in the Old Testament that the word was used to distinguish between two Semitic tribes, the Gileadites and the Ephraimites, who were…
The etymological meaning of Monday is moon day, adapted from the Latin lunae dies that also gave rise to Lunes in Spanish, and Montag in German.
With all the twists and turns in the world, many places we easily recognize today have actually been born with very different names. In some cases, name changes have occurred more than once. One of the best-known cases is the present-day city of Istanbul, which was born as a Thracian city of Ancient Greece under the name of Byzantium and was renamed in the year 330 when Emperor Constantine I re-founded the city…
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