![]() ![]() Fans, critics and fellow linguists wait with bated (from the French abattre "to beat down") breath for each new anthology - and, like its predecessors, this one is bound to satisfy and delight. This collection is a classic to be read, re-read, enjoyed and fought over. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time marks the publication of Safire's sixteenth book on language. ![]() Dedicated and disputatious readers itch to pick up each column and respond to the week's linguistic wisdom with a gotcha letter to the Times. ![]() Safire is the guru of contemporary vocabulary, speech, language, usage and writing. He is the most widely read writer on the English language today. For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine's column "On Language" - one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for innumerable fans. ![]()
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