vernacular
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“Drag Race” is the source of quite a bit of modern slang terminology, lifted from decades of African American Vernacular English, posted online, and co-opted to fit just about anything.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
The singer’s misuse of African American Vernacular English has turned into an internet meme, but Bieber’s in on the joke.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025
There was a really interesting paper by some UMass Amherst researchers a couple years ago where they took African American Vernacular English and they plugged it into language identification machine learning models.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2022
Standard American English, the English spoken by newscasters, is one such dialect, as are African American Vernacular English, Creole, Appalachian English, and others.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on “Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture.”
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing vernacular
The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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Vivacious Vernacular: Words About Slang
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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