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Vernacular   /vərnˈækjələr/   Listen
Vernacular

noun
1.
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).  Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang.
2.
The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language).
adjective
1.
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.  Synonyms: common, vulgar.  "A vernacular term" , "Vernacular speakers" , "The vulgar tongue of the masses" , "The technical and vulgar names for an animal species"



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"Vernacular" Quotes from Famous Books



... using words beyond the ordinary vernacular of his neighborhood. To this end, he made a small vest-pocket lexicon ...
— Slips of Speech • John H. Bechtel
... bearers and they set down our cages in front of a card-house of the same description as that at Tientsin where we had been so nicely "taken in and done for," as Macan would have expressed it in his Irish vernacular. ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... appoint not only divines of established reputation for sound theology, and especially for their knowledge in connection with the original languages of the sacred volume, but some one author at least noted for his mastery over the vernacular language. ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... perversions of the doctrine of Jesus derived their moral force from his credit, and so had to keep his gospel alive. When the Protestants translated the Bible into the vernacular and let it loose among the people, they did an extremely dangerous thing, as the mischief which followed proves; but they incidentally let loose the sayings of Jesus in open competition with the sayings of Paul and Koheleth and David and Solomon and the authors of Job and the Pentateuch; and, ...
— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw
... Protestantism had owed its victory. It is well known that of all the instruments employed by the Reformers of Germany, of England, and of Scotland, for the purpose of moving the public mind, the most powerful was the Bible translated into the vernacular tongues. In Ireland the Protestant Church had been established near half a century before the New Testament was printed in Erse. The whole Bible was not printed in Erse till this Church had existed ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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