^{page 82 note 1} i.e. bad upbringing.

^{page 82 note 2} Modu Laamin's book should be ‘teer'i Modu Laamin’. There could possibly have been a play on tere (prevent) as in Yalla tere, God forbid, and teere, a book.

^{page 83 note 1} Presumably related to root wambu—catty on the back.

^{page 83 note 2} This appears to be a play on the various syllables, the though possibly it implies that ‘crying would end beating’.