• Copenhagenization

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    Noun

    Copenhagenization

    (uncountable)
    1. (rare) Adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
      • 1979, Kenneth A. Oye, ‎Donald S. Rothchild, ‎Robert J. Lieber, Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World (page 272)In addition they policy makers viewed socialists as insufficiently hard-nosed in dealing with world problems. The specter was thus less that of "Finlandization" than of "Copenhagenization."
      • 2018, Charles Boberg, ‎John Nerbonne, ‎Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology (page 119)The far‐reaching linguistic “Copenhagenization” of the country has its correlate in an even more ubiquitous subjective Copenhagenization: everywhere, young people not only downgrade their own local accents ... relative to young Copenhagen speech, but they also perceive and evaluate the variation in this speech ... in exactly the same way as young Copenhageners do themselves.
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