regionalisms in English

noun
1
the theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation.
a strong expression of regionalism
2
a linguistic feature peculiar to a particular region and not part of the standard language of a country.
The publication of French dictionaries and lexicons by Enlightenment scholars further eroded regionalisms .

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1. Like a lot of regionalisms, the etymology of Bostal is something of a puzzle, and with little textual evidence to go on the best we can aim for is an educated guess.The Oxford English Dictionary plumps for a compound of two Old English words: beorh, meaning ‘hill’ (the origin of barrow), and stigel

2. Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930-1959): a sociolinguistic analysis sulumen), which will be subsequently either abandoned for French loans, or will become regionalisms or archaisms--with some exceptions, like the Turkish-origin term oja (nail polish) which survived and it is still used, in spite of the