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[loe-KYOO-shahn] 
1. a word or expression characteristic of a group of people: "John was on a professional mission to banish useless teenage locutions such as 'like' and 'you know.'"
2. speaking style; phraseology
Origin:
Approximately 1425; from Middle English, 'locucion'; from Middle French, 'locution'; from Latin, 'locutionem': a speaking (nominative 'locutio'), from 'loqui': to speak. In action:
"Earlier that month, NPR reported Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza City intoning, 'there is no God but Allah.' Last week, The Los Angeles Times mentioned mourners for a slain Baghdad professor reciting, 'there is no God but Allah' at the university campus. In September, The New York Times reported an assassinated Palestinian uttering, 'there is no God but Allah' before he died.
'There is no god but God' is the first of Islam's five pillars. It is Muhammad's refutation of polytheism. Yet to today's non-Muslims, the locution 'there is no God but Allah' reads as an affront, a declaration that inflammatory Allah trumps the Biblical God. This journalistic rendition distorts the meaning of the Muslim confession of faith.
Of course, there are distinctions to be made between religions, which the press shouldn't shy away from. But there is no need to augment these differences artificially, especially at the cost of an accurate understanding of the origins of the Abrahamic faiths."
John Kearney. "Op-Ed: My God Is Your God," The New York Times (January 28, 2004).
"My grandmother, the Savannah native, is squarely in the Edwards camp, seduced by the senator's familiar drawl and agile locution."
Kevin Arnovitz. "The Old Man in S.C.: The Democrats angle for the grandfather vote." Slate.com (January 30, 2004).
"There's never been a more highly regarded amateurish commie-pinko protest singer than Billy Bragg. But then, framing it that way hardly gets to the kernel of his appeal. Make no mistake -- the man is loved. People who have no tolerance for amateurish musicians, who can't stand commie-pinkos, and who'd sooner club protest singers with pool cues than pass them by unmolested love Billy Bragg.
It isn't for his songwriting, necessarily, although his lyrics have always shown an uncanny sense of timing and detail; and it's not for his thick, bumbly, limey-dockworker locution. That's an acquired taste. Nor is he esteemed for his intermediate-level electric guitar playing, nor because he looks like DeNiro dressed for a football riot -- or anything else like that."
Gavin McNett. "Songs of Innocence and Experience," [Music Review: 'William Bloke' by Billy Bragg.] Salon.com (September 2, 1996).
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