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Copenhagenization
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English
Etymology
From en Copenhagen -ization.
Noun
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en rare The adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
en 1979 Kenneth A. Oye; Donald S. Rothchild; Robert J. Lieber Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World 272 In addition they [American policy makers] viewed socialists as insufficiently hard-nosed in dealing with world problems. The specter was thus less that of "Finlandization" than of "Copenhagenization."
en 2018 Charles Boberg; John Nerbonne; Dominic Watt The Handbook of Dialectology 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.