vernacular
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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
She owned a copy of Tyndale’s New Testament and backed appointees to the court who supported the idea of a vernacular Bible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Or “AI slop” as it is known in online vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
She couldn’t have known she’d alter my vernacular forever, but when Cher posted, “Whats going on with mycareer” — typos and all — nothing would ever be the same.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing vernacular
The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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