The v-cut goes deeper into the body of the cigar than any other type of cut, yet leaves the two sides fully rounded.

To estimate the mode of a (distance) distribution, we used the midpoint of the shorth (the shortest interval that covers half the values).

'This is the hend, is it, of all my bearing with her deceitfulness, her lowness, her falseness, her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds . . .'

Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead.