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  • So, what's the vernacular then?†   (source)
  • She didn't know a thing so rucked in the vernacular could have such an epic quality.†   (source)
  • She could afford to slip into the vernacular became she had such eloquent command of English.†   (source)
  • It feels like the cabin of a small boat at sea, a cozy enclosure, where Farmer now sets to work on speeches and grant proposals, assisted by a young member of Partners In Health, a pih-er in Farmer's vernacular, sent from Boston for this purpose.†   (source)
  • Now, in medical school, I saw patients who'd frozen to death, in the vernacular, come back to life when they were warmed up.†   (source)
  • Isn't it fascinating how these old tales make their way into the modern vernacular?†   (source)
  • Kahaar relapsed into hedgerow vernacular.†   (source)
  • In the vernacular, Dallas.†   (source)
  • All the while, however, the "vernacular" speech of ordinary New Yorkers remained "r"—less.†   (source)
  • To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed.†   (source)
  • He talked to virtually no one but his horses, and then only in their vernacular of small gestures and soft sounds.†   (source)
  • A Korean man, of his age, as part of the vernacular.†   (source)
  • In the complex vernacular of military euphemism, it was an inescapable summons.†   (source)
  • At our several get-togethers since then it had given me great pleasure to help interpret Faulkner for Sophie, not only by way of explaining parts of the occult Mississippi vernacular but in showing her some of the right pathways as she penetrated the wonderful groves and canebrakes of his rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Which is known, in military vernacular, as a balls-to-the-wall situation.†   (source)
  • Deo went to work at Partners In Health, becoming, in the organization's vernacular, a PIH-er.†   (source)
  • His vernacular, which is quoted in my report.†   (source)
  • Just keep your trap shut till you learn the vernacular, would ya?†   (source)
  • His ham sandwiches, sinkers and Irish quail, better known in the Bridgeport vernacular as pigs' feet, will be triumphs of the gastronomic art.†   (source)
  • Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles.†   (source)
  • Even as it borrows, however, white America continues to bad-mouth the source, the dialect that linguists call African American Vernacular English.†   (source)
  • The vernacular words which he used now for "iron" and "road" (familiar enough to seagulls) his listeners had scarcely ever heard.†   (source)
  • Linguists say, however, that the current generation of inner-city youth relies more heavily on black vernacular than ever.†   (source)
  • George Plomarity said those words are still current: "Those words are all used and definitely, like, find their way into vernacular speech.†   (source)
  • Gukor-Avila describes this as a "new development" within the African American Vernacular English grammatical system.†   (source)
  • In other words, strangers meeting Baugh might think he should be speaking African American Vernacular, which he did as a child.†   (source)
  • And so those who live in Louisiana and Texas who feel strongly that their vernacular is a reflection of their loyalty to their culture, they're going to maintain that.†   (source)
  • When slavery ended, this society was the source of many of the most important products of African American Vernacular culture—for instance, blues, jazz, and rock-and-roll music.†   (source)
  • This was where people spoke Gullah, one of the early precursors of today's African American Vernacular, and twenty years ago you could still hear faint whispers of that original slave English.†   (source)
  • Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) liberally employed common vernacular language in Huckleberry Finn and thus, according to Ernest Hemingway, truly began American literature.†   (source)
  • Ten of the twenty-two expressions listed above are borrowed from black talk, or, as a student called it, "the ghetto fab vernacular that many teens use today."†   (source)
  • In 1997, Labov told a Senate hearing: "This African American Vernacular English is a dialect of English, which shares most of the grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English.†   (source)
  • No. In transcribing the accounts of such barbarity, the researchers were intrigued to notice how different this speech was from current African American Vernacular English.†   (source)
  • In the process of borrowing this sensibility, white America has also appropriated a lot of Black English Vernacular, whether slang or the code-speak that was part of Black English development from slavery days to keep whites, so to speak, in the dark.†   (source)
  • Bailey said, "In the large cities you had spatial segregation but you also had the formation of separate communities often with a kind of oppositional culture to the rest of the U.S. This created an ideal context for African American Vernacular English to develop along a sort of separate track."†   (source)
  • John Baugh said the most significant thing raised during the trial "was that you had a federal judge acknowledge formally that African American Vernacular English represented a significant barrier to academic achievement and success.†   (source)
  • That ability to use the black vernacular creatively while mastering standard English is the grail that schools ideally impart to their students—in effect, to create the kind of bilingualism Dennis Preston talked about in Europe.†   (source)
  • The old man (I use the phrase merely in the paternal-vernacular sense; at age fifty-nine he looked strappingly fit and youthful) had not been badly damaged but there had been a considerable uproar and a crimson outpouring of alarming, albeit harmlessly let, blood from a superficial cut on the brow.†   (source)
  • I knew well the vernacular of suffering, and all the language and canons of the Institute had dissolved in my bloodstream.†   (source)
  • In Connecticut, somewhere on the beautiful winding arboreal highway that stretches north and south along the riverbank between New Milford and Canaan, there had been an old country inn with slanted oak floors, a sunny white bedroom with samplers on the wall, two damp panting Irish setters downstairs and the smell of applewood burning in the fireplace—and it was there, Sophie told me that night, that Nathan tried to take her life and then end his own in what has come to be known in the vernacular as a suicide pact.†   (source)
  • Lancelot looked at Sir Carados, and said in the vernacular: "Will you put that fellow down, and fight with me instead?"†   (source)
  • At present there is only vernacular education at Mau.†   (source)
  • Hamidullah swore violently in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • I must speak in the vernacular, to be comprehended.†   (source)
  • Kim's next sentence was in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • Do I use the vernacular now,—am I understood?†   (source)
  • 'I'd give a good deal to be able to talk the vernacular.†   (source)
  • 'The Search is at an end for me,' shouted Kim in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • 'Who has died in thy house?' asked Kim in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • 'Babuji,' said Mahbub in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • This time Kim thought in the vernacular as he waxed down the oilskin edges of the packets.†   (source)
  • Lurgan repeated the sentence slowly in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • 'Listen to me,' said the Colonel from the veranda, speaking in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • The plain-spoken marriage services of the vernacular Churches will no longer be abbreviated and half suppressed as indelicate.†   (source)
  • Thus I was given to understand that he was the captain, the "Old Man," in the cook's vernacular, the individual whom I must interview and put to the trouble of somehow getting me ashore.†   (source)
  • "Very well, then," said Ignatius Gallaher, "let us have another one as a deoc an doruis—that's good vernacular for a small whisky, I believe."†   (source)
  • Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.†   (source)
  • Of course, in common speech with the sailors and hunters, it sometimes fairly bristled with errors, which was due to the vernacular itself; but in the few words he had held with me it had been clear and correct.†   (source)
  • The conversation was carried on in the vernacular tongue, which my uncle mixed with German and M. Fridrikssen with Latin for my benefit.†   (source)
  • I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) TRAILING Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance — her TRAIL might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.†   (source)
  • Scientific precedents have very little weight with them; they are never long detained by the subtilty of the schools, nor ready to accept big words for sterling coin; they penetrate, as far as they can, into the principal parts of the subject which engages them, and they expound them in the vernacular tongue.†   (source)
  • The first was Rivenoak, who has already been introduced to the reader, while the last was called le Panth'ere, in the language of the Canadas, or the Panther, to resort to the vernacular of the English colonies.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, from under the wimples, the mothers look up, and in the vernacular modestly bespeak their trade: in the bottles "honey of grapes," in the jars "strong drink."†   (source)
  • At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the whole, he would do so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.†   (source)
  • Monsieur my brother, doth it please you that I shall explain in good French vernacular that Greek word which is written yonder on the wall?†   (source)
  • But we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.†   (source)
  • '"For"'—Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he had heard in the dressing-room at Umballa—'"For," says He, "we should have done this long ago.†   (source)
  • "Well, Sarpent," asked Deerslayer, when the other had ended his brief but spirited narrative, speaking always in the Delaware tongue, which for the reader's convenience only we render into the peculiar vernacular of the speaker—"Well, Sarpent, as you've been scouting around these Mingos, have you anything to tell us of their captyves, the father of these young women, and of another, who, I somewhat conclude, is the lovyer of one of 'em."†   (source)
  • This IS the Icelandic original, in the magnificent idiomatic vernacular, which is both rich and simple, and admits of an infinite variety of grammatical combinations and verbal modifications.†   (source)
  • I esteem myself happy that a man, who speaks the vernacular, is present, to preserve the record of my end.†   (source)
  • Could rotary levers be substituted for two of the limbs, agreeably to the improvement in my new order of phalangacrura, which might be rendered into the vernacular as lever-legged, there would be a delightful perfection and harmony in the construction.†   (source)
  • 'I am here,' said Kim at last, speaking in the vernacular: the smells made him forget that he was to be a Sahib.†   (source)
  • It was put out by an Arrow which—' Kim tapped his foot impatiently as he translated in his own mind from the vernacular to his clumsy English.†   (source)
  • Some would even descend from their vehicles and feel the horses' legs; asking inane questions, or, through sheer ignorance of the vernacular, grossly insulting the imperturbable trader.†   (source)
  • He slipped back to thinking and dreaming in the vernacular, and mechanically followed the lama's ceremonial observances at eating, drinking, and the like.†   (source)
  • In the clearest and most fluent vernacular Kim pointed out his error, climbed on to the box-seat, and, perfect understanding established, drove for a couple of hours up and down, estimating, comparing, and enjoying.†   (source)
  • And every tale was told in the even, passionless voice of the native-born, mixed with quaint reflections, borrowed unconsciously from native foster-mothers, and turns of speech that showed they had been that instant translated from the vernacular.†   (source)
  • Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white—a poor white of the very poorest.†   (source)
  • 'Now I will speak vernacular.†   (source)
  • 'And I will see that thou art well taught,' said Lurgan Sahib, still speaking in the vernacular, 'for except my boy here—it was foolish of him to buy so much white arsenic when, if he had asked, I could have given it—except my boy here I have not in a long time met with one better worth teaching.†   (source)
  • A new wave of translations, such as George Chapman's Iliad (1588-1611), brought Homer's poems into the vernaculars.†   (source)
  • This stichic verse, a single unit repeated row on row, corresponds better to epic hexameters than the rhymed stanzas of lyrics or ballads that were first tried in vernacular epics.†   (source)
  • It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak.†   (source)
  • "The vernacular tongue of the country," said Daniel Webster, "has become greatly vitiated, depraved and corrupted by the style of the congressional debates."†   (source)
  • § 2 /The Language in the Making/—All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national beautiful letters.†   (source)
  • /The View of Writing Men/—But though the native /Gelehrten/ thus neglect the vernacular, or even oppose its study, it has been the object of earnest lay attention since an early day, and that attention has borne fruit in a considerable accumulation of materials, if not in any very accurate working out of its origins and principles.†   (source)
  • Already in "Roughing It" he was celebrating "the vigorous new vernacular of the [Pg017] occidental plains and mountains,"[29] and in all his writings, even the most serious, he deliberately engrafted its greater liberty and more fluent idiom upon the stem of English, and so lent the dignity of his high achievement to a dialect that was as unmistakably American as the point of view underlying it.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, however, the term has come to possess a wider meaning, and it is now applied not only to words and phrases which can be so described, but also to the new and legitimately born words adapted to the general needs and usages, to the survivals of an older form of English than that now current in the mother country, and to the racy, pungent vernacular of Western life.†   (source)
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