Thorne touched the hilt of his longsword. " Aye. I have squandered a third of my life trying to teach the rudiments of swordplay to churls, muttonheads, and knaves. Small good that will do me in those woods" .
There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for " English as it should be spoken." Look at the language barrier between the Saxon churls and their Norman conquerors.