Sentence examples for vernacular groups from inspiring English sources

Within the amorphous grouping referred to as Egyptian colloquial, a number of separate vernacular groups can be discerned, each fairly homogeneous but with further strata of variation within the group.

Matty J's performance of queer allyship is hollow in the same way as politicians' attempts to co-opt youth and marginalised groups' vernacular to effect "wokeness" (think Hillary Clinton's cringe-worthy appearance on Broad City).

However are we fiction writers to seek "permission" to use a character from another race or culture, or to employ the vernacular of a group to which we don't belong?

I see you are using racially loaded in-group vernacular!

As a Senate newcomer, Mr. Miller said, he was shocked to hear lawmakers at the Tuesday lunches ask how "the groups," Senate vernacular for special interests, viewed legislation.

Instead, to coin a phrase from my age group's vernacular, Smiley and West are just "haters".

Grits Niall Griffiths (Vintage, £6.99) Buy it at a discount at BOL More unavoidable Trainspotting comparisons with this in-your-face first novel, a vernacular tale of a group of wasted drifters in west Wales (the cover of which bears fulsome praise from Welsh himself).

John H. McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research who is a linguist and a frequent commentator about race, said words or phrases often become part of a group's vernacular when they enable people to assert themselves, reclaim a slur or redress an offense, as in the ownership of the word "bitch" among educated women or "thug" among young African-Americans.

Although the term 'crocodiles' is sometimes used to refer to all of these, a less ambiguous vernacular term for this group is crocodilians.

Prakrit vernaculars varied from region to region and were named accordingly; each vernacular was also associated with particular groups in literary compositions.

Each participant walked through the scenario in a mix of English and the local vernacular language with the rest of the group listening and contributing their viewpoint through comments.