Studia Językoznawcze

The purpose of this paper was presentation and interpretation of words for lettersA–N, which in Słownik warszawski (“Warsaw Dictionary”) bear common qualifier. Wordswere compared with the standard language of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.It was assumed that common vocabulary is synonymous with colloquial vocabularyand is an unofficial, characterized by familiarly.The analysis allow to reveal that the collected vocabulary shows features thatare assigned to colloquial vocabulary: characterized by emotional, negative valuation,anthropocentrism, the dominance of nouns, a grouping of lexemes in a few meaningscope and expressive word formation. High emotionality of vocabulary, many variants ofwords characterized by dialect and numerous marked alternations of word formation resultedthat the vocabulary could not be considered to be correct. Due to the fact that is wasnot neutral, it can not be used for official business, and thus be considered as exemplary.The analysis shows that the nineteenth century standard language indicated not onlyincorrect forms, but also indicated the scope of usage of particular words. Language wasdifferentiated in terms of usage possibility.