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".
In "Ain't That Bad?", she uses the Black English vernacular word "bad" to connote positive connections with Black culture, mores, customs, and leaders, and to help build Black pride.
Collaboration - Raised in a culture where the vernacular included words like "crowdsourcing," "crowdfunding," "inclusive classrooms" and more, they flourish in group settings and are better team players than any generation in history.
As a delicious piece of vernacular, the word has various spellings: challey, charle, charlie.
In today's vernacular, the word soulmate has come to assume a much more intimate nature.
But her strange vernacular feels like words might if they could only burst from their denotative shells.
He was constantly chivvying and bellowing at his team-mates, "chelping" and "rawping" in the south Yorkshire coalfields vernacular, and his words of advice, reassurance and rebuke were so emphatic that they might have been designed to be heard at the coalface two miles beneath the Oakwell turf.
