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| | Shibboleth ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes |
 | | Shibboleths can also be customs or practices, such as male circumcision, or a signifier, such as a semiotic. |
 | | One of these was pronouncing the gerund suffix -ing as it is spelled, rhyming with sing, whereas both the lower and upper classes pronounced it as -in, rhyming with sin. |
 | | Many educational institutions adopted a federated approach - such as Shibboleth - which leaves identity management in the hands of the institutions (and which, pointedly, does not operate outside the federation, that is, not outside the institutions in question). |
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