Jobbie is the local vernacular for poo.
Rolle's importance lies in the devotional prose he composed in the vernacular for women readers.
Frances E.W. Harper used black vernacular for the poems of her Sketches of Southern Life (1872).
"It didn't help that it was a terrible production that used Aussie vernacular for the dialogue.
You could even trade them your phat loot (to use the vernacular) for an item you might need.
"If we want to whinge," he said, using the British vernacular for complaining, "there's plenty to whinge about.
"Rhubarb," it says in my dictionary of slang, is Second World War vernacular for a "low-level strafing mission".
"This gives us stickiness," he said, using industry vernacular for a company's ability to keep customers on a site.
His artistic forebears, like Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Sterling Brown, had combed the black vernacular for literary value.
Oh, I just don't seem to be able to summon the appropriate vernacular for these modern communications devices.
(Mum, if you're reading this, Charlie is vernacular for the killer drug cocaine, thought to be popular among musicians' nostrils).
