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.
The subtitle of the DD is, Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Litterary and Vernacular Terms.
Known by fellow scholars for his theories linking the Afro-American literary tradition to the African vernacular and for his excavation of forgotten masterpieces of black literature, he caught the public's eye in 1992 when he published several salutary and well-reasoned articles criticizing the inflammatory anti-Semitic rhetoric of certain black nationalists.
' For English, this means a capacity to add the Latinate onto the vernacular, then Greek onto the Latinate, so that you can eat a hearty breakfast, and be cordial afterwards without suffering from cardiac arrest.
And, as the printing press gave momentum to these new vernacular Bibles, so too did the English language itself acquire new cohesion and power.