Coming to Terms Author:William Safire When William Safire comes to terms, there's never a dull moment. Whether he is delineating the difference between misinformation and disinformation or pondering alternatives to the phrase significant other (in Canada, the term is spousal equivalent), people sit up and take notice. — Who really said "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings"? ... more »Who coined the phrase "the earth moved"? How does one distinguish between a malapropism and a bonapropism? In this seventh collection of his popular "On Language" columns, Safire offers the answers to these and many other queries burning in the minds of language mavens everywhere. As always, he is aided along the way by his ever-vigilant chain of worldwide correspondents, the Lexicographic Irregulars, who refuse to take the punning pundit at his word. Point for point they match wits with the master -- and he's got the letters to prove it!« less