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Not surprisingly, some of my students came along primarily to acquire a smattering of spoken English to help them chat up holidaying women.
Rather, it is remote, rugged and desert-like, with only a relative smattering (compared to the rest of the Algarve) of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities aimed at tourists.
The other books contain a smattering of travel sites, but Frommer's is alone in listing Web addresses for every restaurant, hotel, and attraction that has one.
It's good to have all the poems in one place, and also the published prose and a smattering of letters.
Since readers are already using their imagination when reading a novel, a good writer must simply encourage them to imagine what a character's speech may actually sound like by providing them with a smattering of eye-dialect markers.