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Informal Speech Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "VERNACULAR" which means:
- noun
- • A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- • The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) adjective satellite
- • Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language adjective
- • Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- • Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
- • Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- • Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
An example sentence would be:
- • "The author's use of vernacular added authenticity to the dialogue."
- • "I struggled to understand the local's vernacular while visiting the foreign country."
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