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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.
The introduction lists emerging food trends of the year, albeit a bit cursorily, and without really specifying how the trends are certified as such.
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.
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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