Sábado Gigante always gave America's diverse Latinos a shared pop culture vernacular; for immigrant families, it gave us something to connect to with family back home.
"We're shaking the rust off," Sparks says, ecstatic that the L7 vernacular is back.
Billy Elliot, then, is a basic British story told in an American vernacular.
The British architect's globular complex of pebble-shaped towers – an office and retail development called Wangjing Soho – is itself something of a copy of her recently completed Galaxy Soho, also in Beijing, and both projects are in keeping with the city's new vernacular of bulbous UFOs, kicked off in 2007 by Paul Andreu's National Grand Theatre.
Their experimental, vernacular early works reinforced the impression Iain and I assimilated from school and university in the early 70s: that poetry had evolved away from contrived artificialities of rhythm and diction to free verse, and that the high points were TS Eliot's The Waste Land and the rugged, ragged lines of Hugh MacDiarmid.
But the stoutly English folk vernacular that the melodically gifted Flynn has rebooted with indie-friendly currency is winning hearts and minds well beyond Albion's shores.
Most of those who led the Irish revolution believed passionately that Irish independence simply wouldn't be worth having if it did not lead to a revival of the Gaelic language as the vernacular in Ireland.
And how do you handle vernacular so that it sounds authentic, such as Scottish, Yorkshire, patois, cockney?
Bachmann is not the first anti-choice politician to recently wade into the vernacular of choice and bodily integrity.
Cunningham makes deeply emotional music and does so in his own vernacular.
Now and then I've hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular word-lists or remarkable people – troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coinages, like the Lewisian "Peat Glossary".
