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Errata vs. Erratum
Errata
Examples:
The book included an errata sheet correcting typos.Errata were issued post-publication by the journal.Readers found several errata in the initial print run.
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Erratum
/eˈrɑːtəm/Examples:
The newspaper issued an erratum for the misprinted date.An erratum was included to correct the spelling mistake.Please see the erratum on page two for the correction details.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Errata is a term that is plural, whereas erratum is its singular form.
- An erratum refers to an individual mistake or correction, while errata refers to multiple errors or a list of corrections.
- Remember that errata ends with an a, like data, indicating it is plural in Latin.
- When youre thinking about a single mistake in a document, you use erratum'.
- If a publication has several mistakes, you refer to them as errata.
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