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vernacular

[ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-] / vərˈnæk jə lər, vəˈnæk- /




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Rosales is aware that the world has its eyes on L.A. and that people everywhere are learning the cultural vernacular improvised by Cali’s brown folks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In many ways, China’s vernacular taste in automotive design codified the excesses of the West and doubled down upon them, propelled by the status-signaling anxieties of rising Chinese affluence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

The excitement comes with its own vernacular, as “powder hounds” hit the slopes, looking for “fresh tracks” and “chasing pow.”

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026

She owned a copy of Tyndale’s New Testament and backed appointees to the court who supported the idea of a vernacular Bible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

He talked to virtually no one but his horses, and then only in their vernacular of small gestures and soft sounds.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

“People at the top spoke a different language, often Latin, and populations would speak local vernaculars, which were not standardized.”

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

She is intimate with its maps and vernaculars, and the way summer settles hard on the north-central plains along the Brazos River south of Horseshoe Bend near Granbury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

The following year, they finished their first opus in New York and realized their respective musical vernaculars and gifts produced something starkly different when combined.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021

As in most Indo-Aryan vernaculars an a after an accented syllable is very lightly pronounced, and is here represented by a small a above the line.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various


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