[Dragaera] Hallowe'en!

[Mark Mandel]

Right. But they'll ask you that for any old thing. I ran a search this
morning for "dour-handed Ranger", and Google asked me if I meant
"four-handed Ranger".

The UPenn library search succeeded, but that's not a proper test, since that
site returns up to 50 hits, starting with the first match OR WHATEVER WOULD
FOLLOW IT:

1     1     Zelazny, Gene.     Personal Name
2     1     Zelazny, L. W.     Personal Name
More Info 3     0     Zelazny, R. (Roman)     Personal Name
4     18     Zelazny, Roger     Personal Name
5     1     Zelazny, Roger, 1937-     Personal Name
6     2     Żelazny, Roman.     Personal Name
7     1     Zelazo, Noach.     Personal Name
8     4     Zelazo, Philip David.     Personal Name
9     4     Zelazo, Philip R.     Personal Name

For Delany, my mnemonic is that he is a Singer "of cities":
 - of: DE
 - cities: LA, NY
For "delaney samuel" (with that extra "e"), UPenn returns

#    Titles     Headings     Headings    Type
More Info 1     0     Delaney, Samuel R.     Personal Name
      2     2     DELANEY, SHELAGH     Personal Name
      3     4     Delaney, Shelagh, 1939-     Personal Name
      4     1     Delaney, Thomas B.,     Personal Name
More Info 5     0     Delaney, Thomas Gerard, 1947-1979     Personal Name
      6     3     Delaney, Tim.
and so on and on.

which isn't helpful. Spell it right, though, and you get

1     38     Delany, Samuel R.     Personal Name
2     4     Delany, Sarah Louise, 1889-1999     Personal Name
...
So the spelling can make a difference.

m a m

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 1, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>
>  BTW, it'll be easier to find stuff by & about Zelazny -- at least
>> electronically -- if you spell his last name right: no "e".
>>
>
> How about Delany?  8^)
>
> But let me test.   I'm finding Amazon and search engines don't have any
> trouble guessing who I really mean?
>