Scrabble?! VERNACULAR

Definitions of VERNACULAR in various dictionaries:

noun - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

noun - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

adj - being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

The standard native language of a country or locality.

The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.

The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular.

An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.

The common, nonscientific name of a plant or an animal.

Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.

Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.

Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of architecture and decoration common in a particular region, culture, or period.

Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.

Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a plant or an animal.