On Language

by William Safire

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812909372
• ISBN13: 9780812909371
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Times Books
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

As you like it.

If you like learning things about the language and don't mind some humor thrown in, any of his collected-column books are well worth the read. Yes, he was a political troglodyte and even did some slimy speech-writing for Tricky Dick, but these language books are non-political. Do you know the diff between a dangling participle and one merely misplaced? Get with the program!

William Safire may be dead, but he'll never be forgotten.

William Safire was a genius with telling us what the English language was all about. And how to use it effectively.