corrigendum

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The Word of the Day for March 27 is:

corrigendum   \kor-uh-JEN-dum\   noun
     : an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its 
correction on a separate sheet 

Example sentence:
     Not only was the document itself full of errors, but the corrigenda 
included with it had mistakes as well!

Did you know?
     If you guessed that "corrigendum" might be connected to the word 
"correct," you are quite right. Both "corrigendum" and "correct" derive from 
the Latin verb "corrigere," which means "to correct." The noun "corrigendum" 
and its plural "corrigenda" came to us unaltered from Latin in the early 19th 
century. The verb "correct" is much older; it has been part of our language 
since at least the 14th century. Other descendants of the very correct 
"corrigere" include "incorrigible" and "escort."





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