Does '(I have often wondered why the publishers did not have the nerve to call themselves  F**k and Wagnalls. ' hold a position of neutrality in relation to 'I wondered why the publishers didn't call themselves Fuck and Wagnalls.'
(I have often wondered why the publishers did not have the nerve to call themselves  F**k and Wagnalls. ###I wondered why the publishers didn't call themselves Fuck and Wagnalls.