| The New York Times Magazine 1999 WIlliam Safire |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| Belly-button: nomenclature for the Age of Umbilicus.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Bloopies: solecisms, gaffes and boo-boos get their coveted awards.(examples of English language abuses in advertising) | | William Safire |
| Could the Body take down the Hammer?(history of cultural and political nicknames)(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Dangle.(spy language becomes mainstream)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Each other: between us (not we) two: each or one another.(right and wrong usage of English terminology and phrases)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Eyeball hang time: killer E-speak for the 24/7 generation.(new English terms and phrases from the electronic communications generation that may be willing to be available to the office 24 hours-per-day, seven days-per-week)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Eye-roller: NATO looks heavenward following a SWAG.(connotations that evolve from English language jargon)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Faith-based: why does `religious' suddenly need a synonym?(use and abuse of English phrases and terminology)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Faithful, even in death: scoff not at "Tribute to the Dog.".(Best Speech) | | William Safire |
| First things first.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Foggy Bottom opens a cratering service.(evolution of some current political terms)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Gambling: pays yer money, takes yer choice.(understanding the uses and applications of English words and phrases)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Genderese.(gender and language)(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Gifts of gab.(selection of books on linguistics) | | William Safire |
| Go figure: the rise of the puzzled imperative.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Gore dialect vs. Bush Metaphor.(Albert Gore, Jr.; George W. Bush)(On Language) | | William Safire |
| Hit On: never enough words to satisfy the mavenry.(thoughts on English language terminology, and work of experts who research how phrases and expression evolve)(Column) | | William Safire |
| How to be gruntled, kempt and couth.(On Language)(etymologies of words and metaphors)(Abstract)(Column) | | William Safire |
| If not now, when? And if not thisphrase, whichphrase?(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Impeachmentese: a full (not fulsome) complement of synonyms for rebuke, some more purifying than others.(analyzing the way English terms and phrases have been misused in the description of Bill Clinton's impeachment crisis)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Impeachmentese (continued).(On Language)(parsing words)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Las word from a giant of linguistics.(On Language)(linguistics professor James D. McCawley)(Obituary) | | William Safire |
| Lookit: the unrecognized admonition lingers on.(English language jargon)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Me, myself and I: self makes a comeback.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Need not to know.(language and politics)(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| New paving for the middle of the road.(politicians' usage of phrases and words to describe their actions)(Column) | | William Safire |
| n.y.t. style: in-house word maven surveys Times's new usage manual.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Occam's razor's close shave: the opulent history of the parsimony principle.(William of Ockham and the quest for solutions) (includes related article on the proper use of the term 'lady') | | William Safire |
| One guojia? Why Chinese are forced to argue in English.(finding the right English terminology for the Chinese concept of nation; includes other language anecdotes)(Column) | | William Safire |
| On the outer limits of the envelope.(the phrase 'pushing the envelope'; political metaphors are also discussed)(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Opt in: outing the inside lingo of privacy.(On Language) | | William Safire |
| Scribble: the command that lets you eat your Internet words.(On Language) | | William Safire |
| Stake in the ground: stiffen those lingusitic sinews.(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
| Swift on censure: pulling a politicized word out by its roots, until we're blue in the nose.(Brief Article) | | William Safire |
| Trope-a-dope: figures of speech fly as campaign lifts. | | William Safire |
| We/us: in defense of the Queen's English.(debate over pronouns that should be used with the conjunction 'than'; difference in the meanings of shameless and shameful)(Column) | | William Safire |
| What does plain, old-fashioned horse sense tell us about it?(preservation of phrases in the South)(On Language)(Column) | | William Safire |
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