On some of the things we shall miss about President Bush... Six writers contributed today in an op-ed piece in the Times.

Mr. Bush’s battle with English has enriched our political language. It is no longer possible to say a person or a factor has been underestimated. Thanks to him, that word is now misunderestimated. In trade negotiations, tariffs and barriers have become bariffs and terriers. Kosovo is the land of the Kosovians, Greece the ancient homeland of the Grecians, a Reagan-loving people with no gray hair. There is no strategy, only “strategery,” a term coined by the comedian Will Ferrell and adopted inside the administration. — JACOB WEISBERG, the editor in chief of the Slate Group and the author of “The Bush Tragedy

Other memorable ones: Sometime after Sept. 11, Mr. Bush declared that normality was returning with the following statement: “I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.”