vernacular

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

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

Or “AI slop” as it is known in online vernacular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

With it came the word descubrimento, meaning first ‘exploration’ and then ‘discovery’; and then this word, in its vernacular equivalents, spread across Europe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“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

Heretofore works on Moral Theology in English have been altogether too few or too fragmentary, whereas they have been abundant in the vernaculars of Continental Europe—German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome