Actually, even if you can spell, check what you wrote. Your spell checker may have changed a word that you really meant to write. It took me three tries to get the title as incorrect as I intended it to be.
For the last several years, John Lescroart has brought out a new Dismas Hardy novel in January. They are so popular that I gave up trying to get them at the Duluth Public Library. Instead, I would buy a copy at my favorite book store and then donate it to the library when I finished.
Unfortunately, my favorite book store (Northern Lights Books) has closed, and I have not found its equal yet. So, I didn't order the latest John Lescroart novel earlier this year. Today I finally got around to checking the library catalog and didn't see anything new from Lescroart.
I went to his website and saw only a comment about another novel concerning one of his usual characters. Then I clicked on his books heading. The top book was "The Hunter" and its page was subtitled "Due out January, 2012".
I went back to the library catalog and looked up "The Hunter". Hoo boy! Over 800 hits. I limited the search to 2012 publication, and Bingo! The bad news is that all eight copies are out. I bet the reserve list for each is quite long. I could read it in large print if I wanted.
What does all this have to do with the title of this entry? On Lescroart's main page he has a little snippet "Fumblerules of Grammar" and gave five examples. He also gave a link to a much longer list that was created by William Safire in 1979. Click here for the complete list of Fumblerules.
