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No Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine
William Safire's On Language column for The New York Times Magazine ran long enough to become an institution, and this collection catches him in mid-stride. He chases the origins of words that arrive through technology, entertainment, politics, and everyday mischief, treating each etymology like a detective story with no corpse. Safire was a conservative who loved language more than purity, and the columns benefit from his willingness to be wrong in public. The result is a reference book that reads like a magazine backlog: dated, opinionated, and full of stray facts that lodge in the mind. Ideal reader: the person who argues about whether 'decimate' has been ruined, or the columnist who wishes grammar were still a contact sport.
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