Sentence examples for is vernacular from inspiring English sources
noun
The language of a people or a national language.
- A vernacular of the United States is English.
The hatred is vernacular.
A similar term is vernacular, which refers to the common, everyday speech of the ordinary people of a region.
(Mum, if you're reading this, Charlie is vernacular for the killer drug cocaine, thought to be popular among musicians' nostrils).
Every generation attempts to redefine classicism - to take what is vernacular and distill it so that it becomes part of our common language and heritage.
And so, obviously, is vernacular, or writers from Twain and Stowe to Faulkner and Welty would never have been able to draw on the black speech they heard around them in the rural and urban South.
There are vernacular interventions from the modern era, though.
Dry stone retaining walls (DSRWs) are vernacular structures which can be found all over the world.
The show's most rewarding groups, after "Fashion and Likeness," are "Vernacular Illustration" and "Ornament".
Today, the photographs are vernacular oddities and pop icons with a distinctly totalitarian bent.
Traditionally, jazz and metal were vernacular arts in which working-class players could make their mark, but, for better or worse, that's changing.
