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Culturebox doesn't know the first thing about plagiarism law, but she has looked through both books (cursorily, it's true) and sees what Bruce means: Several passages, including descriptions of Bell's birthplace, of a demonstration of Bell's "harmonic telegraph," and of Bell's battles with Edward M. Gallaudet over sign language, are startlingly similar.
The introduction lists emerging food trends of the year, albeit a bit cursorily, and without really specifying how the trends are certified as such.
It’s more a personal home than a museum and the works are often poorly lit and cursorily labeled.
On the other hand, I found utterly fascinating the chapter Censorship, which describes--rather cursorily, I regret to say--several US court cases in which defendants were charged with various violations stemming from their use of bad language.
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
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