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@july
During WWII German occupation of the Nederlands, the Dutch used Scheveningen (a seaside town near Den Haag) as a shibboleth to tell Germans from Dutch because Germans Also if you watch Band of Brothers, the Allied forces use "Flash" / "Thunder" as sign/counter sign (call and response) to verify each other. The reason is because Voiceless dental fractives (th) are rare in German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative
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gilles
@gilles
my fave example of this is from The Battle of the Golden Spurs between French and Flemish in 1302 Bruges
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