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Definition of Vernacular

Vernacular Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. Related Definitions: As, Belonging, Birth, By, Chiefly, Common, Country, English, Expression, In, Indigenous, Is, Language, Locality, Mother, Native, Nature, Now, Of, Often, One, Or, Our, Own, Particular, The, To, Tongue, Used, Vernacular

Vernacular Quotations The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. Michael T. Thomas I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. David Ogilvy To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas B. Macaulay This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. William Labov What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. Carlisle Floyd

Vernacular Translations vernacular in French is vernaculaire vernacular in German is Mundart vernacular in Swedish is lokal dialekt

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