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Definition of "vulgarisms" []

  • Plural form of vulgarism. (noun)

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Use "vulgarisms" in a sentence
  • "Inquiry into it would at once bear out the American contention that what we are often rude enough to call their vulgarisms are in fact good old English."
  • "And why do the lower classes, whose "vulgarisms" are, in nine cases out of ten, more correct than our refinements, still talk about Whitsun Monday and Whitsun Tuesday, where the more polite say, Whit Monday and Tuesday?"
  • "Any one who is aware how many of what are called 'vulgarisms' in pronunciation are in fact 'archaisms,' will naturally think that the ancient pronunciation of 'spoil,' like the modern vulgar one, was"