In this attempt at classification, there are, doubtless, errors and imperfections; for an emigrant from Vermont to Illinois would introduce the provincialisms of his native district, into his new residence.
The foregoing words and expressions are probably provincialisms rather than Devonianisms, good old English forms of expression; as are, indeed, many of the so-called Hibernicisms.
Provincialisms are expressions current and well understood in one locality, but not current or differently understood in another locality.
Obsolete words would be permissible in poetry or in historical novels, technical words permissible in technical writing, and even vulgarisms and provincialisms permissible in dialect stories.
A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the island.
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and collection of provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex.
Colonel Dodge takes a middle ground with regard to the identity of the signs used by our Indians, comparing it with the dialects and provincialisms of the English language, as spoken in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
When the people of England emigrated to the states, they came from every county in England, and each county brought its provincialisms with it.
English provincialisms adopted into general use in America.
The political importance of the South, in the years between the Mecklenburg Declaration and the adoption of the Constitution, tended to force its provincialisms upon the common language.
The exact details of the provincialisms of the whole of that part of Germany which contributed, or is supposed to have contributed, to the Anglo-Saxon immigration.
Shakespeare may introduce a few Warwickshire words into his plays, but his English is none the less the Standard English of his day, while Spenser is sharply brought to task by Ben Jonson for using archaisms and provincialisms in his poems.
Of course in what I have said I wish to be understood as keeping in mind the difference between provincialisms properly so called and slang.
Provincialisms were not deemed by the legislator of our language legitimate words; he did not recognise their primitive claims, nor their relative affinities, but ejected them as vagabonds.
Barnes has almost perfectionated the catalogue of Dorset provincialisms in the Glossary to his beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect, I still sometimes meet with a stray omission, viz.
I have noted the following North Lincolnshire provincialisms since the appearance of MR.
Bibliographica Notice of works on the Provincialisms of Holland 85 VII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provincialisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
