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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: William Safire died (27/9/2009) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:33:41 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <vd61mc$mrf7$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:33:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b91613a6c1b978e1e490fc087ac082ae"; logging-data="749031"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DvolLp5+JZs2OXNlKjbD8zTpWMOHfH9I=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wbed5t7gbTQt4WKZ853uDLQJc6o= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1927 Frequently mentioned on a.u.e. (less frequently on sci.lang) because of his New York Times column "On Language", written from 1979 until his death. He had started at the Times as a political columnist; among his varied previous occupations, he had written speeches for Richard Nixon and Spiro T.Agnew. "It started as the usual kind of usage column, addressing traditional complaints, but he developed a witty style that gave him a general appeal....Over the years he became less prescriptive and more explanatory, reaching out to linguists as occasion demanded." (Crystal) I knew his writings only as quoted on a.u.e. Somewhere I have a collection of his columns in book form, but I've never been in the mood to read it. (Same goes for other such collections I've accumulated. I should get rid of them.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire