input: A vernacular or vernacular language is the native language or native dialect (usually colloquial or informal) of a specific population, especially as distinguished from a literary, national or standard variety of the language, or a lingua franca (also called a vehicular language) used in the region or state inhabited by that population. Some linguists use "vernacular" and "nonstandard dialect" as synonyms.

The use of "vernacular" is not recent. In 1688, James Howell wrote:

Concerning Italy, doubtless there were divers before the Latin did spread all over that Country; the Calabrian, and Apulian spoke Greek, whereof some Relicks are to be found to this day; but it was an adventitious, no Mother-Language to them: 'tis confess'd that Latium it self, and all the Territories about Rome, had the Latin for its maternal and common first vernacular Tongue; but Tuscany and Liguria had others quite discrepant, viz. the Hetruscane and Mesapian, whereof though there be some Records yet extant; yet there are none alive that can understand them: The Oscan, the Sabin and Tusculan, are thought to be but Dialects to these.

Here vernacular, mother language and dialect are already in use in a modern sense. According to Merriam-Webster, "vernacular" was brought into the English language as early as 1601 from the Latin "vernaculus" ("native") which had been in figurative use in Classical Latin as "national" and "domestic", having originally been derived from "vernus" and "verna", a male or female slave respectively born in the house rather than abroad. The figurative meaning was broadened from the diminutive extended words "vernaculus, vernacula". Varro, the classical Latin grammarian, used the term "vocabula vernacula", "termes de la langue nationale" or "vocabulary of the national language" as opposed to foreign words. 1. Is the use of vernacular recent?
2. What is a vernacular?
3. What are some synonyms?
4. Who spoke greek?
5. Anyone else?
6. When was the word introduced into the english language?
7. According to who?
8. From what latin word?
9. Which means?
10. How was it used in classical latin?
11. As what?
12. Anything else?
13. Derived from what originally?
14. Meaning?
15. How was the figurative meaning expanded?
16. Who was Varro?
17. What terms did he use?
18. Anything else?
19. And the last one?
20. As opposed to? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. No
2. The native language or native dialect of a specific population
3. vernacular" and "nonstandard dialect"
4. the Calabrian
5. The Apulian
6. as early as 1601
7. Merriam-Webster
8. Vernaculus
9. Native
10. Figuratively
11. National
12. Domestic
13. Vernus and Verna
14. A male or female slave respectively born in the house rather than abroad.
15. From the diminutive extended words "vernaculus, vernacula".
16. A classical Latin grammarian
17. vocabula vernacula
18. termes de la langue nationale
19. vocabulary of the national language
20. foreign words.

input: Jamie was on the playground. As he was running towards his friends, he tripped on a classmate's toy truck and fell. He skinned his knee. He got up and saw that the watch that his brother had given him had broken when he fell. Jamie was very sad about his watch breaking, which was the second bad thing to happen to him today. One of his friends saw that he had fallen. Lindsay heard Jamie saying that his watch was broken. He was mad at the boy, Kevin, who had left his truck on the playground for Jamie to fall over. Lindsay tried to tell him that it was not his Kevin's fault that Jamie had fallen. She said, "Let's take your watch to the teacher. I think Miss Henderson can fix it." Miss Henderson fixed Jamie's watch, and told him to be more careful when he was running outside. After his watch was fixed and he felt better, Lindsay clapped. "I told you it would be okay," she said. She and Jamie went out to play with their other friends. 1. What happened to Jamie's watch?
2. How did it break?
3. Did someone push him?
4. How did he fall?
5. Did he get hurt?
6. What did he do for the rest of recess?
7. Who saw him get hurt?
8. Was it a boy or girl?
9. Did she help him?
10. What did he do with the accessory?
11. Who was she? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. it broke
2. it broke when he fell
3. no
4. he tripped
5. He skinned his knee
6. unknown
7. his friend
8. a girl
9. yes
10. he took it to the teacher
11. Miss Henderson

input: The 2008 Sichuan earthquake or the Great Sichuan earthquake, measured at 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw, and occurred at 02:28:01 PM China Standard Time at epicenter (06:28:01 UTC) on May 12 in Sichuan province, killed 69,197 people and left 18,222 missing.

It is also known as the Wenchuan earthquake (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wenchuan da dizhen; literally: "Great Wenchuan earthquake"), after the location of the earthquake's epicenter, Wenchuan County, Sichuan. The epicenter was 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital, with a focal depth of 19 km (12 mi). The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai1,500 km (930 mi) and 1,700 km (1,060 mi) awaywhere office buildings swayed with the tremor. Strong aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 6, continued to hit the area even months after the main quake, causing new casualties and damage.

Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest in the country since the 1950 Chayu earthquake, which registered at 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. It is the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time. On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it would spend 1 trillion RMB (about US $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake, as part of the Chinese economic stimulus program. 1. how far away was the earthquake felt?
2. how many people were affected in the area?
3. which earthquake is the article mostly about?
4. how many people died in it?
5. what is another name for the same quake?
6. anything else?
7. is that the quakes epicenter?
8. how big were the aftershocks?
9. how many were thought to be injured?
10. which earthquake was more deadly?
11. how many people were killed by that?
12. which earthquake is the 21st deadliest of all time?
13. how big was the Chayu earthquake?
14. how much RMB was needed to rebuild?
15. how much is that in USD?
16. did office buildings sway?
17. what is the provincial capital?
18. how many people were missing?
19. were people left homeless?
20. about how many on the high end? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. As far away as both Beijing and Shanghai.
2. Approximately 15 million people.
3. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake
4. 69,197 people
5. Great Sichuan earthquake
6. Wenchuan earthquake
7. Yes
8. some exceeded magnitude 6.
9. 374,176
10. The 1976 Tangshan earthquake
11. 240,000
12. The Sichuan earthquake
13. 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale.
14. 1 trillion RMB
15. About US $146.5 billion
16. Yes
17. Chengdu
18. 18,222
19. Yes
20. 11 million