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In spoken language, ordinary gathering (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orally

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'in spoken' is the definition.
'orally' can be an answer for 'spoken' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'in' bit.

'language ordinary gathering' is the wordplay.
'language ordinary' becomes 'o' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gathering' becomes 'rally' (rally is a kind of gathering).
'o'+'rally'='ORALLY'

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(Other definitions for orally that I've seen before include "How one speaks" , "via the trap" , "By spoken word" , "as auditions are done" , "given drugs thus?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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