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It refers to His vulgar vocabulary and facility in slang, but—more important—it offers oddities like a reference to learning by rote on page 105 and to Pidgin on page 41: upon looking both up, I found nothing about rote learning on page 105 and nothing about Pidgin on page 41; nor was either listed in the sparse index.
I recall a childhood favourite from my father's sparse joke repertoire: “Church usher to errant worshiper, `Mardon me padam, but you are occupewing the wrong pie.
In recent years the government and foreign donors have made great efforts to develop Nepal’s rather sparse natural resources.
Naturally, this would not ever happen for a sparse implementation of USM, where n = uu [ 4 ] , and, consequently, the number of coordinates increases with every new symbol.
Good to read, but sparse Index and brevity preclude its use as a reference grammar.