I, 22) and professed to detect in Livy's style certain provincialisms of his native Padua (Quintilian, i. [Please select]
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He had the natural advantage of a refined appearance, and his accent was pure, and not marred by any provincialisms. [Please select]
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However, I find Holloway, in his "Dictionary of Provincialisms" (1839), gives the following:-- "Calimanco Cat, s." [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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Some of the provincialisms of the district occur in the following words--"yat" (gate), "tump" (hillock), "teart" (sharp), "spract" (lively), "twich" (touch), "near a anoust" (near the same), "anunt" (opposite). [Please select]
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