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Vernacular Principle

• Definition: The contention that the speech style that is most regular in its structure and in its relation to community patterns of language change is the vernacular, or settle in which least attention is paid to speech.

  Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes