1. (n.) The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

2. (n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

Acadian Anglo-Indian Brooklynese Cajun Canadian French Cockney French Canadian Gullah Midland Midland dialect New England dialect Pennsylvania Dutch Yankee Yorkshire autarky barbarism bimetallism bundle of isoglosses class dialect colloquialism corruption dialect dialect atlas dialect dictionary economic self-sufficiency free enterprise free trade governmentalism idiom impropriety isogloss laissez-faire laissez-faireism line linguistic atlas linguistic community linguistic island local dialect managed currency noninterference nonintervention nullification party line party principle patois planned economy policy polity position price supports protection protectionism provincialism public policy pump-priming regional accent regionalism sectionalism slang speech community subdialect taboo word vulgarism