Words similar to colloquial

Example sentences for: colloquial

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The majority of Afrikaans items, however, are those which appear in written English sources, but rarely in colloquial South African English (even as spoken by Afrikaners).
colloquial, disputed use a family, class, or set (not of the same ilk as you).
It is a comfort to know that if my book still merits reprinting some decades hence, as it is in machine-readable form, the publishers need only write a short program indicating that informal be substituted for all occurrences of colloquial and, like magic, the switch will be effected.
Finally,--and this may come as the most unkindest cut of all to purists--most speeches call for use of conversational, colloquial English.
There are also in Pepys's Diary words and phrases that have been admitted to our standard language but that still sound a bit colloquial.