Example sentences for: vernacular

How can you use “vernacular” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.


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