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

In his own vernacular, he "mogs" everyone he meets - he is so at the top of his game that he outshines everyone in his presence.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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

This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

He has driven across the country more than a dozen times, mapping highways, studying vernaculars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

The following year, they finished their first opus in New York and realized their respective musical vernaculars and gifts produced something starkly different when combined.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021

All these except, for obvious reasons, the first, tended away from Latin into the vernaculars as time went on, and were but of lesser literary moment, even while they continued to be written in Latin.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury