Plagiarism disorders
Just a brief entry: Margaret Soltan today discussed the plagiarism by Judith Kelly in her “memoir” Rock Me Gently: Again with the uncontrollable memory! What shall we call this? Incontinent mnemonism? Ah, yes, the “I wasn’t aware I was copying words” excuse I’ve heard a few times from some of my enrollees (which is different […]
Online OED
By Sherman Dorn on August 12, 2005
Thanks to Piers Cawley: there’s an OED gateway that Tarrin Wills has set up at the University of Sydney. From the entry on drop-out, it’s clearly from the older edition (not the OED online for which you need a subscription). But it’s still fun.
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