Word: vernacularized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred times she would touch my eye, nose and mouth and each time I would have to repeat the native word...
...prohibition chiefs. Commissioner Doran: "We want no lawless law enforcement." Assistant Secretary Lowman: "There are to be no vital changes in enforcement regulations. . . . We are going to cut out catching people by technicalities in the law. . . . Enforcement must be sensible and upright." It was all in the vernacular. A politer enforcement hangs fire...
...experiment was an immediate success. The Promenade Concerts soon came to be called Pops in the vernacular, whether on account of their popularity or the popping corks has never been determined. In any case, the name itself became so popular that it was officially adopted...
...municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
Specimen manipulations of the vernacular by Author Taylor...