Up coming presentation by Walter 21/02/08

[Paul Jones]

I'n not sure really - it depends on what definition of vernacular one applies...

vernacular
[ver-nak-yuh-ler]

–adjective

1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works: a vernacular poem.
3. using such a language: a vernacular speaker.
4. of or pertaining to such a language.
5. using plain, everyday, ordinary language.
6. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of architectural vernacular.
7. noting or pertaining to the common name for a plant or animal.
8. Obsolete. (of a disease) endemic.

–noun

9. the native speech or language of a place.
10. the language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or profession.
11. a vernacular word or expression.
12. the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinary people.
13. the common name of an animal or plant as distinguished from its Latin scientific name.
14. a style of architecture exemplifying the commonest techniques, decorative features, and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.
15. any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles.

[Walter Brooks]

14. a style of architecture exemplifying the commonest techniques, decorative features, and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.

Thanks Paul, couldn't put it better myself ... happy to do it in a local accent 'owd lad, but there are even so many variations cross Lancashire that some of the audience might not 'appen to knows like what a Bury lad were gooin' on bart ... and as for thems folk at the other end of the runway they call the East Lancs ...

[Lee Bold]

Tha's nowt wrong wih abit uv inglish, naw n then.
Theres nothing wrong with a bit of english, now and then.
Lee from wigin