vernacular

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

Now, in the vernacular of our bet-on-anything era, it’s all part of monitoring the situation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

To him, Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“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

Certainly the enormity of the loss from this virus has made a full reckoning difficult, at least within established memorial vernaculars.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022

The “Folk Symphony,” split into three movements, weaves swatches of folk music into a vibrant tapestry of vernaculars.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022

As in most Indo-Aryan vernaculars an a after an accented syllable is very lightly pronounced, and is here represented by a small a above the line.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various