parlance
/ˈpɑːl(ə)ns
/noun [mass noun]
A particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest: dated terms that were once in common parlance medical parlance...
- Then of course we have the emergence of words like funner and funnest into common parlance.
- It is common parlance and part of our living language.
- Freudian language has seeped into common parlance like that of no other writer since Shakespeare.
Origin
Late 16th century (denoting speech or debate): from Old French, from parler 'speak', from Latin parabola 'comparison' (in late Latin 'speech').