Word to the Wise: Colloquial

"Colloquial" (kuh-LOH-kwee-ul) – from the Latin for "conversation" – refers to informal spoken language.

Example (as used by the 19th-century historian John Richard Green): "The abandonment of … poetic diction for the colloquial language of real life."

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