Example sentences for: vernacular

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

  • The very first question, about speakers of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English, the scholarly term for the dialect popularly referred to as "ebonics") being unable to do math because their language can't handle it, is tied into the biggest questions linguists face.

  • The Oxford Companion to the English Language (OCEL ) is missing an s at the end of its title, for it has headings for more than four hundred varieties of our multivaried mother tongue—Australian English, Singapore English, Indian English, Black Vernacular English, etc.

  • What will be the impact of a vernacular Bible on the future development of the Ixil language?

  • Tyndale wrote in a timeless vernacular, not all of it echoed in the AV.

  • Most investigators, feminist and nonfeminist alike, agree that women's vernacular differs from men's: Jespersen listed adjectives favored by women, noted women's use of “little” intensifiers.


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