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"ref": "2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302:",
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"ref": "2016, Jasmine Y. Damle, Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen, Routledge, →ISBN, page 209:",
"text": "Indian studios provide media services to Western costumers, and foreign money has been poured into shared partnership studios working in the Mumbai film industry. ‘It’s Raining Dollars in B-Town’, trumpeted India Today headlines, and international involvement has only increased. In 2008, Danny Boyle’s cinematic adaptation of Slumdog Millionaire was shot in Bombay’s Dharavi slum and attracted worldwide attention.",
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"ref": "2016 June 14, @Haz_Pundaz, Twitter, archived from the original on 2025-03-13:",
"text": "just hanging out with @22wiggins in #Brampton at #policarobmwgrandopening. Just another day in B-Town #nbacanada",
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"ref": "2020 June 11, @brandongonez, Twitter, archived from the original on 2025-03-13:",
"text": "Hey #Brampton, thanks for all the love so many of you showed today.\nI meant to tweet this earlier but got busy. Many of u know I grew up in B-town so anytime I get a chance to report there, it really feels special.",
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"ref": "2024 April 5, Osobe Waberi, “Baddies in Brampton? A major reality TV series is coming to Canada and people have so many questions”, in Now Toronto, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:",
"text": "The Baddies are coming to B-town?",
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"Brampton (city in Ontario)."
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"ref": "2020 June 11, @brandongonez, Twitter, archived from the original on 2025-03-13:",
"text": "Hey #Brampton, thanks for all the love so many of you showed today.\nI meant to tweet this earlier but got busy. Many of u know I grew up in B-town so anytime I get a chance to report there, it really feels special.",
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