Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967; English translation, University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, with the title
Vulgar Latin (transl.
The spelling and pronunciation of Middle English words with initial <h-> is to a large extent determined by processes taking place in
Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin and Old French, i.e.
Switzerland is divided into 20 cantons (states) and there are four official languages - German, French, Italian and Romansh, a form of
vulgar Latin.
The church obliged, and again if I remember correctly, it celebrated the Eucharist in the
vulgar Latin, not the elite Latin of Cicero, which was the Latin of the educated class.
Jerome, while emphasizing (Epistle 49.4) his sacrifice of elegance to textual fidelity, through his classical training "raised the
vulgar Latin of Christianity to the heights of great literature" (J.N.D.