Language expert William Safire in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express a "little bit of arcana".

In his August 30th "On Language" column, Safire inaugurated his own version of it:

GWB needs to start reading more of Safire's On Language column.

William Safire, in a very generous "On Language" column a couple of weeks later, had this to say:

Just a few days before I read William Safire's On Language column "Been There.

With regard to William Safire's On Language column "Get a Life!"

He wrote the inaugural On Language column in 1979.

Shea has also contributed to the "On Language" column in Sunday's New York Times.

On first reading Margalit Fox's On Language column (Sept. 12), I thought it was a spoof.

(William Safire noted two of them in his "On Language" column, and Mr. Morrow confessed to the third.)