Yesterday I used the construction “one of the only.” Specifically, I wrote: “Broadcast journalism is one of the only fields in American life where the job gets demonstrably easier the higher you go.”

It turns out this is a grammatical no-no of a very high order. Most of my grammatical/spelling/typographical errors are the result of carelessness rather than ignorance. Which means, by the way, no one ever needs to send me an email explaining the difference between it’s and its. I know the difference. I sometimes simply type the wrong thing.

Anyway, in this case, I really didn’t know that “one of the only” was forbidden. My apologies. And, thanks for the tip.