25 February 2011
The New York Times Magazine is discontinuing the “On Language” column that has been running since 1979. Ben Zimmer’s last “On Language” column is here.
William Safire wrote the column from its inception until his death in September 2009, and since then Zimmer has been writing it. The original plan was that the column would run for maybe a year. The column was one of the highest profile venues for linguistics in the US and it will be missed.
Zimmer continues to write his “Word Routes” column for the Visual Thesaurus.
