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#83638 10/16/2002 1:37 PM
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I had not heard the word used according to definition given. but my dictionary
divulged that as the second definition.


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I, also, had not heard the term in any other than the third definition. Vulgar Latin, on the other hand, as the common language of the citizens, I had heard. And the more I hear about it the more it seems a language different from the language of oratory, rhetoric and learned writing, not just in usage and preciseness, but in basic grammar.


#83640 10/16/2002 2:44 PM
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and guess what? although rare, it has been verbed: to put into general circulation.

"Amongst the untruths.. few are more detrimental to truth than the epithets vulgated upon Sovereigns." -Sir Francis Palgrave, 1851



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