His vocabulary harmonizes widely different elements: the archaic, the precious and the burlesque, the refined, the familiar and the rustic, the language of professions and trades and the language of philosophy and mythology.
Thus, in 813, just before Charlemagne's death, the Council of Tours decreed that sermons should be delivered in rusticam Romanam linguam ("in the rustic Roman language") to make them intelligible to the congregation.
However, by the 15th century lowland writers were beginning to treat Gaelic as a second class, rustic and even amusing language, helping to frame attitudes towards the highlands and to create a cultural gulf with the lowlands.
Lowland writers began to treat Gaelic as a second class, rustic and even amusing language, helping to frame attitudes towards the highlands and to create a cultural gulf with the lowlands.
IMAGINE a mountain landscape speckled with rustic villages whose residents speak an ancient, isolated language.
The design is cool, the language is terse, and the food, although rustic at heart, is unassumingly stylish.
Standard Castilian is no longer the language of Old Castile, which was regarded as rustic and archaic already in the 15th century, but a modified form developed in Toledo in the 16th and 17th centuries and, more recently, in Madrid.
The tiny, rustic college offers instruction during the year in music, literature and language of the Gael.
I am fed up with television companies constantly kowtowing to a small number of lemon-faced puritans who want to believe that no one uses language that would have been the everyday parlance of the rustics, and with which Shakespeare larded his plays in order to bring the high-flown sentiments and language down to earth.
