colloquial
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Colloquial language, Dasani writes in pen, is “a regional dialect that is only spoken and understood by a group of people; includes slang.”
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021
It fulfills our yearning for “authenticity”: Colloquial speech sounds direct and unpremeditated.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
Colloquial, technical, and other special uses of words, here receive their share of attention, and are felicitously rendered or illustrated by corresponding English terms.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
It was also calculated to promote the study of the Romanized Colloquial Version of the Scriptures as well as other Romanized Colloquial literature.
From Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by Fagg, John Gerardus
Kellogg, A Grammar of the Hind� Language, in which are treated High Hind� ... also the Colloquial Dialects of ...
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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