Word: vernacular
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Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...
...Yale Daily News published one (1) edition on Saturday--namely the Post Game Extra, popularly labled extra number two, which contained only football information. 6. Our funny friends from the north were responsible for the publication of two bogus Newses which preceded the legitimate issue--in the vernacular, "The Parody" and Extra Number One. 7. Great game...8. Great weekend... --An editorial from the Yale Daily News, November...
...During her three-hour ordeal, Mrs. Mclsaac goes into ecstatic trances. Afterward she describes her visions. A Catholic priest who has investigated them terms their details accurate as to background, architecture, dress, manners and language: "In the visions of the Passion, for instance, not only does she hear the vernacular of the time and place, Aramaic, but distinguishes between dialects of this tongue. She describes the . . . Roman eagles, fasces and other objects in very simple language but in great detail...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...
...York Yankee fans were coping this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...