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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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A “smattering” means a small, piecemeal, superficial amount of knowledge.
A “SPATTERING” (if taken as a gerund) would mean a small amount scattered from the whole. And why stop there? A “SPLATTERING” does the same trick of conveying the notion of a portion taken from the whole.
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