WOTD AND QOTD

Word of the Day

vernacular (vərnækyələr , वर्नैक्यलर)
Example
It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on “Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture”- Arundhati Roy, “The God of Small Things”
Definition
adjective

  1. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday languageSynonyms:  common, vulgar“a vernacular term”“common parlance”“the technical and vulgar names for an animal species”“the vulgar tongue of the masses”“vernacular speakers”
noun

  1. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
  2. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)Synonyms:  argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang“they don’t speak our lingo”

Quote of the Day

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare

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