I try to avoid this regionalism when speaking to an international audience.
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Regionalism
Synonyms for "regionalism" (22 found)
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Noun(3 words)
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Related words (11)
Noun(7 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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6 entriesautonomy movementlocal folkloreregional artregional autonomyregional dialectregional vocabulary
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6 entriesautonomy movementregional autonomyregional dialectregional identityregional languageregionalism movement
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Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
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... the formal normative variety of the language as it is used today in formal writing by educated native speakers. As a result, we have eschewed dialectisms and regionalisms. The English variety employed in the book is formal British English, ...
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Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
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