Demotic

How To Use Demotic In A Sentence

• I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice.
• Katharevousa was used for most state documents, in many newspapers, and in secondary school instruction until the 1970s but has been displaced by demotic Greek since that time.
• Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho.
• The working-class demotic in which the novel is narrated is a highly literary construct, just like the Glaswegian dialect of James Kelman, but this takes nothing away from the book's compassion or bruising emotional force.
• The power of the demotic gives his book a special charge not shared by other such compilations.
• There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom.
• The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity. Cassocks and Codpieces
• The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the demotic.
• The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
• I think there is a place for the demotic, and many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste.