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vernacular
noun
he wrote in the vernacular and adopted a non-academic style accessible to the public:
everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, native speech, conversational language, common parlance, non-standard language, jargon, -speak, cant, slang, idiom, argot, patois, dialect;
regional language, local tongue, regionalism, localism, provincialism;
informal lingo, local lingo, patter, geekspeak;
rare idiolect.
antonyms formal language; Latin.
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