World Ballroom Dance Champions Council" (WD&DSC), and renamed again as the WDC. The Professional Ballroom section (occasionally called Professional Modern in British tradition) of DanceSport) covers the dances waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, tango and Viennese waltz. World Ballroom Dance Champions This page lists the official World Champions – Professional Ballroom of the World Dance Council (WDC), and its historical predecessors. The championships are authorized and organized under the auspices of the WDC. The designation "Ballroom" replaces the previously used "Modern" or "Standard" in WDC terminology; it does not include the latin dances. World Championships of a sort have been held in ballroom dancing since 1909
Vulgar Latin Latinus" one merely spoke Latin, but if one spoke ' or ' ("more Latinish") one spoke good Latin, and formal Latin had "", the quality of good Latin, about it. After the fall of the empire and the transformation of spoken Latin into the early Romance languages the only representative of the Latin language was written Latin, which became known as "classicus", "classy" Latin. The original opposition was between formal or implied good Latin and informal or Vulgar Latin. The spoken/written dichotomy is entirely philological. Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin