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Dec. 6, 2014
Word of the Day

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\ver-NAK-yuh-luh-rahyz, vuh-NAK-\
verb
1. to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
Quotes
In the lively urban capitals of the Indian print industry (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras), major debates and experiments were taking place on how best to vernacularize and make Indian a foreign form that had already proven so successful among readers.
-- Priya Joshi, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, 2002
Origin
Vernacularize came to English in the early 1800s from the Latin vernāculus meaning "household, domestic, native."
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