Don't ask me! Yes, I know about the pejorative connotations of vulgar and vernacular, but merely have a hint of a memory that 'demotic' was originally a word that specifically referred to the Egyptian labguage, and wasn't widely, or at all, applied to the 'common' tongue in other languages. Until, of course, recently. Hence my claim that it was inaccurately used. I could be worng though, given my reluctance to actually look anything up.

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the sunshine warrior