regional expressions
Place-specific speech patterns
Regional expressions are words, phrases, or idioms used primarily in a particular geographic area.
What Americans call a shopping cart, the British call a trolley.
Within the United States, a carbonated soft drink might be soda, pop, or coke depending on where you are.
Regional expressions often persist despite standardizing forces like mass media, marking speakers as locals or outsiders.
- lahSixth scale degree
- patoisRegional informal speech
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
- dialectsRegional language variations
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regional expressionsformal language
Elevated, rule-governed expression
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