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Catchword for “vernac”

Catchword: vernac

Filed Under: English, India

Part of Speech: adj.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: By the 1970s mythological movies were seen as downmarket and vernac, suitable only for films made in other ethnic Indian languages. (Vernac is short for vernacular. It is a common Indian English word for a person of an ethnic Indian background without much education, English or sophistication who speaks only a local “vernacular” language. The equivalent of a country bumpkin or backwoods bozo.)

Author:
Philip Lutgendorf

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Who Wants to be a Goddess?

Dateline:
University of Iowa

Date of Publication:
July 13, 2004

(This date is uncertain. It is either not given, unclear, or unreliable in the original source.)

This cite belongs to a full entry for vernac.

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