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His words are the plainest, drawn from his own homely vernacular.
All recent works of fiction exhibit the deplorable corruption of the vernacular English.
And the sentiment is now generally admitted, that even those who are afterwards to learn other languages, may best acquire a knowledge of the common principles of speech from the grammar of their vernacular tongue.
It may have been a pious ejaculation or a whole speech in his own peculiar vernacular.
Speaking in the society-column vernacular of a later day, the occasion was marred by the absence of the bride's father.
The Old French lives of Saint Agnes and other vernacular versions of the Middle Ages.
It becomes thereby simpler, homelier, more vernacular: it is a story that is a native emanation.
Thackeray has flexibility, music, vernacular felicity and a deceptive ease.
A meal was a "dab" down there and the boys had fallen naturally into the vernacular of the men of the plains.
One of the girls who worked at the hotel in the village "got into trouble," as our vernacular runs, and as she came originally from our district and had gone to school there, everyone knew her and was talking about the scandal.
The vernacular question, so much agitated recently, is important only as it may hinder this practical work.
She exclaimed, in her New England vernacular.
The mottoes of the two nations are as well rendered in the vernacular as by any formal or stilted phrases.
Whether the name of it is English or Vernacular, we do not know.
The voice was soft and sweet, but the intonation, the vernacular, were American, and not of the highest class.
The clerk smiled slightly at his broad vernacular, as he replied that he would speak to the proprietor, and presently an elderly gentleman appeared from an inner office, and inquired the nature of the man's business.
And to this vernacular use Plato himself in the Laws seems to revert, though not always.
For an English-Dutch interpreter the thorough knowledge of the vernacular is essential.
In some places they have printed them in the vernacular by the use of Chinese characters.
His dialectic forms are taken from the vernacular of the North Lancashire folk with which he was familiar.
Fifteen others were English poets who apparently did not write in the vernacular.
The claims of vernacular education were not forgotten, nor the vital importance of promoting female education, by which "a far greater proportional impulse is imported to the educational and moral tone of the people than by the education of men."
It is not necessary, either, to pervert scientific truths in the process of translation into the vernacular.
Stratton was a genuine Yankee, and thoroughly conversant with the Yankee vernacular which he used freely.
He went on to tell this tale, which I shift into the vernacular from his laborious English.
The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of the vernacular in the Indian schools.
Every people, in the gradual accessions of their vernacular genius, discovered a new sort of knowledge, one which more deeply interested their feelings and the times, reflecting the image, not of the Greeks and the Latins, but of themselves!
In the latter country, opera had to be in the vernacular and practically to become French.
It does not take long, superficial as is our acquaintance with their vernacular and the workings of their little brains, to single out particular specimens, and perceive that no two "birds of a feather" are exactly alike.
They sit on the Bench, they dominate the Bar, they teach in the schools, they control the vernacular Press, they have furnished almost all the most conspicuous names in the modern literature and drama of Western India as well as in politics.
Besides the Sanskrit books mentioned above numerous vernacular works, especially collections of hymns, are accepted as authoritative by various sects, and almost every language has scriptures of its own.
There was a public ready to read vernacular books, and not at home with French.
"I was scrammed," said he, which meant, in our vernacular, he was "all in."
The books which we have noticed between the second and the seventh centuries may be allowed to represent that Christianized Latin literature which is the historical bridge between the ancient classical and the modern vernacular literatures.
Often the interest of these Latin inscriptions is enhanced by a strong touch of the vernacular showing through.
Jim, despite his education, often lapsed into the homely vernacular of which he heard so much.
Trying to think in the vernacular of that world, she put in timidly.
It is designed for advanced scholars, and is introductory to a system of grammar which he has in preparation, which it is humbly hoped will be of some service in rendering easy and correct the study of our vernacular language.
He spoke Latin with myself, and his vernacular tongue with the valet.
Especially if you pick up an assortment of expletives in the Sicilian vernacular.
My grandmother spoke French fluently, it was her vernacular; and my father had left some valuable and choice books.
He "cusses" in the same unholy vernacular, only more vigorously.
Suddenly the Chairman roared out a terrifying word in the vernacular.
In the American vernacular the word "mean" is very significant.
Cried the millionaire, relapsing into his vernacular in his excitement.
And Master Sandy plainly intimated both in tone and manner, not to mention the vernacular of the soldier, that Stabber might take liberties with any other troop or company at the post, but would best beware of Daddy's.
In his excitement he had lapsed into boyish vernacular.
During his two years in the army he had drifted into the easy habits and easier vernacular of the enlisted man.
"That's what we in the American vernacular call 'a knock-out.'"
It was well that thus early, in schools, in books and tracts, and in providing the literary form and apparatus of the vernacular languages, Carey laid the foundation of the new national or imperial civilization.
Carey, himself of peasant extraction, cared for the millions of the people above all; but his work in the classical as well as the vernacular languages was equally addressed to their twenty thousand landlords.
"Enough to give you the pip; you ought to slack off a little," I said, extending him the courtesy of his own vernacular.
"The ultimate standard of pronunciation for the English language is the usage that prevails among the best-educated portion of the people to whom the language is vernacular; or, at least, the usage that will be most generally approved by them."
The vernacular verse is a good imitation of the cackling of a fowl.
His father, who had very advanced views in educational matters, instead of sending him to an English School, which was then regarded as the only place for efficient instruction, sent him to the vernacular village school for his early education.
He told his story in a vernacular racier than I dare to copy; but it came to this.
He used no slang, and retained scarcely a word of his boyhood's vernacular.
I want to say one thing that I think, which is that I think it is very difficult to judge practically when a too analytical definition of a condition or state is substituted for the ordinary and worldly vernacular.
Her vocabulary of Tenement vernacular was growing too, and she chattered unceasingly.
Maggie was apt in any state of excitement to revert in her speech to the vernacular.
Then one asked a question in the Indian vernacular.
It will be observed that Phil was rapidly falling into the vernacular of the showman.
And in the vernacular they were the snags.
That was the purport, only it was put vernacular and stronger.
He said this dreamily, and in so doing relapsed into the old Cornish vernacular.
There are three or four in English, one in French, and the rest in the vernacular.
The rabbi abandoned his ecclesiastical lingo and fell into the vernacular.
The foreign word, or the word of a district, or class of people, passes into the general vernacular; but it is long before the specially learned will acknowledge the right of those with whom they come in contact to follow general usage.
His play (taking it as his) was his only work of the kind, and was the first English play acted at either university, though later he himself had to protest officially against the use of the vernacular in a piece performed before the Queen.
He was the first to establish a vernacular press in India, and, with Alexander Duff, the first English schools.
Desmond commanded in the peremptory vernacular; and mounted the steps with his burden.
This shrub possesses edible fruit, something like a plum, hence its vernacular names.
Vaguely she surmised it to be professional vernacular.
He expressed himself more pathetically when he fell into the vernacular.
She didn't use as flowery language as that, but it's difficult to quote Patty in the vernacular.
Old Man Curry could never keep abreast of the vernacular.
Many of the women learn to read the Koran, and a few learn to read and write Malayan in the government vernacular schools, but the latter is sometimes objected to on the ground that the girls will write letters to men.
It should be said that during the fifteenth century the popularity of these plays increased enormously, records of their performance being found in all parts of England, including Cornwall and Wales, where they were acted in the vernacular.
He gave in with a sigh, and ordered in the singsong vernacular of his childhood.
Are these names vernacular in any of the modern Indian languages?
In mountain vernacular many words that serve as verbs are only nouns of action, or adjectives, or even adverbs.
To use the vernacular, he is on a long, slow, melancholy jag.
Yet these minstrels represented the beginnings of music and of vernacular literature after the conquest of England.
The rest of the people in our clothes poured their own vernacular upon my head.
Only treatises for the practical use of the unlearned and ignorant adopted the vernacular.
It might seem unlikely at first sight that so highly technical a subject as law should furnish a considerable contingent to early vernacular literature; but there are some works of this kind both of ancient date and of no small importance.
His speech had glided from French into English so good that it was colloquial, and of the vernacular.
Versions of the same stories in the different Indian vernaculars have already appeared, and others are likely to follow.
It was with entire unconsciousness that he had slipped back into the rough vernacular of his childhood.
The translations into the vernacular were in terse rhymes.
She even slid back into the rough-hewn vernacular that had been so completely banished from her lips and custom.
Brown insists, is "the sole authority for the ascription to James of the vernacular poems."
A book on national customs, the first work in the vernacular by a South African native, was published in 1893.
And he answered in the vernacular of the moment, "Fine and dandy!"
Luther and Calvin were besides the masters of a vigorous style in the vernacular when that mode of expression was rare enough to make them a power over the masses of the people in their respective countries.
The reappearance of these old English names bears witness to the fact that the vernacular was reasserting itself.
She called in the soft, guttural vernacular.
It is the English damsel who delivers it in the vernacular.
From the date of their foundation they seem to have paid much attention to the recitation of hymns in the vernacular.
"I am beginning to pick up a few scraps of the vernacular," I retorted, a little nettled.