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- noun Plural form of
provincialism .
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Pronunciation, when perfectly pure, should be free from what we call provincialisms; that is, from any peculiarity of tone, accent, or vowel sound, which would mark the speaker as coming from any particular locality.
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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But 'provincialisms' do not seem sufficient to account for the use of
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Similarly, there are plenty of "provincialisms" in Shakespeare.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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Some believe racism, as well as more subtle unconscious provincialisms were vanquished long ago, except for the horrible legacy of dependence created by liberal programs formed in the 1960's.
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Some neighbouring Bedouin tribes, especially those of Fahm and Hodheyl, use a dialect still more pure and free from provincialisms and grammatical errors.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as
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The foregoing words and expressions are probably provincialisms rather than
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Barbados has a considerable number of provincialisms of dialect.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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How unusual it was can be judged by comparing with the then-current practices and theories of poetic diction his recommendation of monosyllables, expletives, the archaic language of Chaucer and Spenser, and current provincialisms -- devices that Gay had used for burlesque -- as means of producing the soft and the tender.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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