southernism
English
Etymology
Noun
southernism (countable and uncountable, plural southernisms)
- Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.
- 1954, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons official report
- 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.
- 1954, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons official report
- A word or phrase (a dialectism) from Southern American English.
- 2015, Michael D. Picone, Catherine Evans Davies, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches, University of Alabama Press (→ISBN), page 169:
- 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).
- 2015, Michael D. Picone, Catherine Evans Davies, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches, University of Alabama Press (→ISBN), page 169:
Related terms
Coordinate terms
- (dialectisms) dialectism; Americanism (Yankeeism, Yankism), Australianism, Britishism (anglicism, Briticism), Canadianism, Indianism, Irishism, Scotticism, southernism, New Zealandism