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  • noun Plural form of localism.

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Examples

  • Just as globalization has invigorated localisms, “Kolkata” may yet become a new global and Bengali entrepôt for eastern India, Bangladesh, and Burma, as old trade routes reaffirm themselves and Calcutta — that is, Kolkata — regains the hinterland it lost when the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent created East Pakistan (later Bangladesh).

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • Just as globalization has invigorated localisms, “Kolkata” may yet become a new global and Bengali entrepôt for eastern India, Bangladesh, and Burma, as old trade routes reaffirm themselves and Calcutta — that is, Kolkata — regains the hinterland it lost when the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent created East Pakistan (later Bangladesh).

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • A country of myriad interrelated localisms and interactive units is a vision.

    Archive 2007-11-25 Newmania 2007

  • A country of myriad interrelated localisms and interactive units is a vision.

    20th Century Brown Newmania 2007

  • However, i'm pretty sure that this comic was translated in a "neutral" spanish, without many localisms.

    What I bought – 30 April 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • We are too exclusively occupied with our own particular selves, our own particular parishes, our own little localisms.

    The Problem in Canada 2007

  • Father had no patience with abbreviation, localisms, or any deviation from pure plantation English; but Jackson was right.

    Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006

  • And this in turn means a call to the churches to discover a form of holiness that effectively challenges the localisms and self-assertive separatisms that are the most effective cultural captivity of the modern Church.

    Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic' 2004

  • Moreover, if we are indeed about to return, in our weariness at the pursuit of microscopic localisms in approved postmodern style, to a new kind of grand narrativethat typified, for example, by a faith in something called global culture (a faith that was perhaps never completely abandoned) and in an end to history,8 then there might be a useful polemical function to our inconclusive literary histories.

    Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002

  • For nowhere is this genial quality found in such purity as among the true, rustic Yankees, whose clear-cut, homely phrases and sharp localisms are not as entirely extinct as is supposed.

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

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