Common speech variety of a specific population, as opposed to standard, national, literary or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca.
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The vernacular in America, particularly in a business sense, is cautiously professional.
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The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang.
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The last song may be given in the vernacular as a specimen:
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Compare the origin of the vernacular elementary-school teacher in Germany and England.
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You are correct in saying that racial abuse is infecting the vernacular.
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There's something admittedly odd about watching photo-realistic-looking animals speak in everyday vernacular.
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However, the vernacular performance of bemused seriousness translates oddly to the page.
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As usual, however, in the East, it has no general vernacular name.
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Following him, the vernacular translators take that word in the same sense.
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He had, in the vernacular of the ring, been put to sleep.
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This part of the verse is skipped over by the vernacular translators.
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Your father would have said it was the vernacular of the rail-head.
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The Synod of Oxford did not forbid the use of vernacular versions.
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The modern vernacular for the successful squire of dames was then unknown.
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These functions are known in the vernacular as spotting, locating, and trailing.
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The profile deliberately reflects the gratifyingly bold simplicity of local vernacular barns.
