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Neville ChaimBerlin
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It’s slipping away from me. It starts with an S and comes from the story in which one tribe ousts someone as being from another tribe (I think Benyamin) because they ask them to pronounce THIS word, and they say the shin like a sin, right?

I’ve forgotten the word, though.