Farewell, Word Maven

I was only a sometime reader of William Safire’s column in the Sunday Times magazine, On Language but as a teacher of English, and general word nerd, I appreciated his insights into language.
This is a great essay from Ben Zimmer, of Visual Thesaurus, in which he pays homage to the word maven. http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2000/?utm_source=rss

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This entry (permalink) was posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 5:06 AM by Nancy Cavillones and categorized in linkage.

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