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- noun Plural form of
regionalism .
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Examples
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“You should be proud of your regionalisms,” Harry said.
Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010
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As these examples suggest, the regionalisms that persist are often not those we learn from books or teachers or newspapers; they are the words we use with friends and family, the phrases we've known forever and never questioned until someone "from away" remarked on them.
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And here they are with all their regionalisms and their prejudices.
40 Years After 'Ball Four,' Baseball Still Breaks Hearts 2010
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Traits I had considered my own personal quirks, or perhaps regionalisms as a Californian, were revealed as being stereotypically American.
The View from There 2007
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Fallacious archaic oppositions are revived — regionalisms and racisms which serve to endow mundane rankings in the hierarchies of consumption with a magical ontological superiority — and pseudoplayful enthusiasms are aroused by an endless succession of ludicrous competitions, from sports to elections.
2009 September 2009
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Here's how I see it: if Obama is the nominee, then win or lose we'll see a different distribution of red and blue on the electoral map - one that is based on policy and issue concerns rather than on the current regionalisms we've grown accustomed to.
Quinnipiac: Hillary Ahead By Nine In PA Primary, Runs Stronger Than Obama In Big Swing States 2009
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Lay on the regionalisms too thick, and it starts to feel like comic-strip sociology.
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Traits I had considered my own personal quirks, or perhaps regionalisms as a Californian, were revealed as being stereotypically American.
The View from There 2007
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Lay on the regionalisms too thick, and it starts to feel like comic-strip sociology.
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Fallacious archaic oppositions are revived — regionalisms and racisms which serve to endow mundane rankings in the hierarchies of consumption with a magical ontological superiority — and pseudoplayful enthusiasms are aroused by an endless succession of ludicrous competitions, from sports to elections.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009
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