Deb Amlen, “The Only Constant” (Wordplay, the crossword blog of The New York Times, Mar. 4, 2011).
For those of us who toil and revel in the world of words, it started with the end of Ben Zimmer’s column, “On Language.”
Ben is a colleague of mine, and a more-than-worthy successor to William Safire, the column’s mainstay since 1979. To be frank, it hurt to lose a column that provoked so much conversation among word lovers and students of etymology. Online discussion groups and social media outlets blazed with palpable outrage.
Read the rest here. (Related On Language column)