Words similar to vernacular
Example sentences for: vernacular
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There is, of course, no single "Black English"--there are various black Englishes in Africa and the Caribbean, for instance--and Black English Vernacular is not considered a separate language by most language specialists or, for that matter, ordinary people.
(Benjamin Franklin and, before him, Cotton Mather left simulations in their writings of the speech of some American blacks that anticipate vernacular renderings today.)
The ancestry of vernacular elements such as these is diverse and includes antique forms of English and slave-trade-era maritime lingua franca, but an African origin for many of them has been persuasively argued for.
I have another example, well established although not part of the vernacular, of a comparative gone into reverse.
macaronic Does not refer to pasta; it is a text which is half Latin and half vernacular.