Complex sentence: Georges, pg.35 Thoms consciously replaced the contemporary terminology of "popular antiquities" or "popular literature" with this new word; folklore was to emphasize the study of a specific subset of the population: the rural, mostly illiterate peasantry.
Split into simpler sentences: Georges, pg.35 Thoms consciously replaced the contemporary terminology of "popular antiquities" or "popular literature" with this new word. Folklore was to emphasize the study of a specific subset of the population: the rural, mostly illiterate peasantry.