What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Vernacular vs X - What's the difference?

vernacular | x |

As a noun vernacular

is the language of a people or a national language.

As an adjective vernacular

is of or pertaining to everyday language.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

vernacular

English

(wikipedia vernacular)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The language of a people or a national language.
    • ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
  • Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
    • Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
  • Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
    • For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
  • (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
    • Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .

    Synonyms

    * (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slang

    Antonyms

    * (national language) lingua franca

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  • Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
    • a vernacular disease
  • (architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
  • (art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported

    • Synonyms

    * (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folk

    External links

    * * * English terms derived from Etruscan ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----