‘a _demotic_ idiom’

‘At that point, it leached back into the wider culture, slightly altering the rhetoric, but not necessarily the essential substance, of _demotic_ antiscience.’

‘The stone, as you probably know, is inscribed with three forms of writing: Greek, hieroglyphic, and a less ornate, _demotic_ form of Egyptian.’

‘It was the stone that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as it had translations in of ancient text in Egyptian _demotic_ script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.’

‘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.’

‘The truth is that Doric is simply in speech the vernacular and in writing the _demotic_ .’

‘The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called _demotic_ , the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.’

‘The last form was called _demotic_ - or running script by some.’

‘The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, _demotic_ and hieroglyphics.’

‘In the matter of the book at hand and its rhythmic proportions, we must remember that ancient epic in the time of Homer was chanted, not read, and that its rhythms were those of the _demotic_ .’

‘he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the _demotic_ ’

‘The _demotic_ and the democratic voices are the same.’