vernacular

Gerstner, whose day job is running investment firm Altimeter Capital, pitches the program with the vernacular of a venture capitalist: “charitable giving at scale, directly to American kids, with proven ROI.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

A lush cactus garden is bordered by Elysian Park, completing Fisher’s vision of the castle in the woods, but done in Southern California’s vernacular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Mr. Lornell, a professor emeritus of music history and culture at George Washington University, has written many works on vernacular music, from a Lead Belly biography to a survey of Washington’s go-go music scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From Salon ● May 10, 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

He has driven across the country more than a dozen times, mapping highways, studying vernaculars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

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

He went on to explain that even though language constantly evolves, different regions will continue to display their own collections of distinct vernaculars.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2022

But they have become thoroughly assimilated in their southern home, and each of them has produced a huge mass of fine devotional literature in the vernaculars.

From Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. Barnett