This week in the web design class the professor sent out a correction for some code previously provided. The typo in the code as seen in the assignment caused many of us to run our tests but get errors that we couldn’t debug. The title of the corrected code was “Errata for Assignment 9.” I had never seen the word errata before, and I vowed to look it up. Someday when I had time for that sort of thing.

Today I am sitting in the UGLI (Undergrad library) waiting for the professor to show up for a meeting and figured I had the time. So I went to my trusy online Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary and typed in “errata.”

“Errata: a list of corrigenda; also :a page bearing such a list.”

Well…that wasn’t very helpful was it?! So I entered “corrigenda.”

“Corrigenda: an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a seperate sheet.”

Now here’s the difference between acadamics and me. I’d have just labeled the page “Stuff that needs to be corrected in assignment 9.”

But, given I am here, I will try to adhere to the rules of a university, and consider this another lesson learned. Can I go home now?