vernacular

Eventually, his interest in our own vernacular building types, with their fusion of copycat gentility and aggressive disdain for anything attractive, came to provide him with much of the material of his art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

On the “Ragbrai,” in the vernacular, we joined roughly 20,000 registered riders—and thousands more freeloaders—on its 53rd year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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

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

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

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 it’s also a dexterous blend of musical vernaculars — i.e.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021

These tribes have all abandoned their own languages and adopted the local Aryan vernaculars.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell