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crack had to do with Warren, for I had used the quotation before. Why did I foul up? I wasn’t paying attention.
Another of my goofs of the year also violated Rule No. 1. A reader in Seattle asked about “one of the best” or “one of the richest.” His point was that “best” is an adjective in the superlative degree. How may we grammatically have more than one who is the best or richest?
To this injury I responded by agreeing that “logically, sir, we cannot have but one that surpasses all others.” Several reproachful readers wrote in to say that I had it wrong. I did have it wrong. I should have said “can have but one” rather than “cannot have but one.” I goofed.
Last spring I scoffed gently at a classified ad promoting a house for sale. The house was “sprinklered.” It was a new verb on me. I couldn’t even pronounce it. Then came a letter from John K. Vitas of Tualatin, Ore., instructing me that ‘“sprinklered’ is a common term in building construction, fire protection and insurance.”
I flunked Rule No. 2 in September, when I identified Sen. John Glenn of Ohio as “the first man to orbit the Earth.” John T. Bird of Birmingham, Ala., was the first of several readers to set me right. Glenn wasn’t the first man to orbit the Earth; he was the third. Two Russian astronauts preceded him.
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