The phrase "a certain vernacular" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific dialect or form of language that is characteristic of a particular group or region.
Example: "The author skillfully incorporates a certain vernacular that reflects the culture of the community he writes about."
Alternatives: "a specific dialect" or "a particular language style".
"If you're writing in a certain vernacular or tone, Tofu will pick up on that," Toscano told me.
The Republican Party is, in a certain vernacular, "ride or die".
So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now," Nagin said.
Echoing through Crawford's book, Twain's words remind us how completely he'd internalized a certain American vernacular, the zippy, breathless syntax of the early industrial age, stuffed with bombast and wonderment.
Ever since it opened in the winter, the play, by Richard Greenberg, reintroduced into a certain cultured vernacular the painful case of Homer and Langley Collyer, known as the Collyer brothers, a couple of sexagenarians discovered dead in 1947 in their Uptown brownstone crammed with about120 tons of personal debris: 14 grand pianos, the chassis of a Model T, lots of newspapers.
She has taken this interest to heart, using her keen visual sense and admiration for certain vernacular styles -- "For the past 15 years, I've been extremely excited about Spanish colonial homes" -- to energetically renovate several houses of her own, and three of them landed Architectural Digest covers.
However, even at this early stage, provincial architects had begun to incorporate certain vernacular features of Sicily's older architecture.
There are other writers who approach Leonard's mastery of a certain deadpan American vernacular -- Joe Gores, the late Ross Thomas, Donald E. Westlake, Carl Hiaasen with his wilder, screwball variations -- but none who surpass him.
His concept for the project, "Train- set Ghetto," he said, is that "New York has a certain style of vernacular architecture and blocks often feel like they're interchangeable".Although Mr. Feigenbaum has worked in different architecture firms since moving to New York five years ago, he has not changed his basic approach to building a row house.
A dish of spaghetti, accompanied by a savory-sweet quartet of sardines, sultanas, pine nuts and wild fennel, suggested both a deft grasp of the nuances of southern Italy's culinary vernacular and a certain virtuosity.
The very phrase Hartz IV has come to have a certain social stigma attached; in German vernacular it is almost synonymous with "loser" or "bum".
