It is one of the national peccadilloes that anyone who lives north of St. Albans has some kind of prejudice against Londoners — perhaps "prejudice" is the wrong word — or rather not against Londoners but against southernism.
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Southernism
Synonyms for "southernism"
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I loved his languid, Southern speech and little southernisms, like "you can't put a sequin on a rat's ass."
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Many are known southernisms in the sense that they are also cited in sources such as Dictionary of American Regional English (henceforth, DARE) or Carver (1987).
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