The difference between Ordinary and Vernacular

When used as nouns, ordinary means a devotional manual, whereas vernacular means the language of a people or a national language.

When used as adjectives, ordinary means having regular jurisdiction, whereas vernacular means of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

check bellow for the other definitions of Ordinary and Vernacular

  1. Ordinary as an adjective (legal, of a judge):

    Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.

  2. Ordinary as an adjective:

    Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

    Examples:

    "On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym."

  3. Ordinary as an adjective:

    Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.

    Examples:

    "I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica."

    "He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder."

  4. Ordinary as an adjective (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal):

    Bad or undesirable.

  1. Ordinary as a noun (obsolete):

    A devotional manual.

  2. Ordinary as a noun (Christianity):

    A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.

  3. Ordinary as a noun:

    A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.

  4. Ordinary as a noun (obsolete):

    A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.

  5. Ordinary as a noun (archaic, _, or, _, historical):

    A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.

  6. Ordinary as a noun (heraldry):

    One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.

  7. Ordinary as a noun:

    An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run.

  8. Ordinary as a noun (historical):

    A penny-farthing bicycle.

  1. Vernacular as a noun:

    The language of a people or a national language.

    Examples:

    "A vernacular of the United States is English."

  2. Vernacular as a noun:

    Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

    Examples:

    "Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere."

  3. Vernacular as a noun:

    Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

    Examples:

    "For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language."

  4. Vernacular as a noun (Roman Catholicism):

    The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

    Examples:

    "Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular."

  1. Vernacular as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

  2. Vernacular as an adjective:

    Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

    Examples:

    "a vernacular disease"

  3. Vernacular as an adjective (architecture):

    Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

  4. Vernacular as an adjective (art):

    Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

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