vernacular

adj : being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday

language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term";

"vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the

masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal

species" [syn: {common}, {vulgar}]

n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among

thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {cant}, {jargon},

{slang}, {lingo}, {argot}, {patois}]

2: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from

literary language)