vernacular

• This vernacular is English based and linguistically influenced from Akan in Ghana and Bantu.
• We're different in that way, because we've already achieved and are achieving within the next twenty years an America that's, you know, in Fareed Zakaria's kind of vernacular, a post-American America in the sense that our Anglo-Saxon European background will no longer be a majority within 20 years. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
• This headline could work for an article on India at any point in time - when instead of the minor royalties, the leadership of the Independence movement was taken up by the upper middle class; when the convent and foreign-educated upper middle class were given a run for their money and status by those who studied in "vernacular" - medium schools - particularly in the past 20 years. —  Ultrabrown
• Then, there was that moment with the school girls, the fact that she used local vernacular -- "council estates" -- to drive home her message that anyone can do anything if they believe in themselves and study hard. —  Living InThe Bonus Round
• To use the basketball vernacular, the referees, ` ` let 'em play. ''

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