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vernacular

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




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Businesspeople who interact with more technical collaborators often serve as the vectors who bring such jargon into the wider corporate vernacular, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It’s a hard one to get on the first try because the vernacular is so particular, but when we read it physically while also listening to the audiobook, it’s such a great novel to hear.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Most of the time, I can overlook diluted queer vernacular popping up in the most random places.

From Salon May 10, 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

Lancelot looked at Sir Carados, and said in the vernacular: “Will you put that fellow down, and fight with me instead?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“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

While womenswear owes a debt to hip-hop, street style and athleticism, contemporary menswear is far more deeply indebted to those vernaculars.

From Washington Post Feb. 15, 2023

It is closely related to Bengali and Oriya, forming with them and with Bihari the Eastern Group of the Indo-Aryan vernaculars.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various




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