the.com/correction
The internet's version of an apology, except it blames the facts, not the ego.
means A correction is a published fix to something that was wrong — new facts, wrong name, flipped number — presented as public amendment rather than personal confession.
from From Latin 'correctio,' noun of action from 'corrigere' — 'to make straight,' built from 'com-' (thoroughly) plus 'regere' (to guide, to rule, to keep straight). The same 'regere' root gives us 'regent' and 'direct.' So a correction has always literally meant straightening something that had gone crooked — the word just quietly let the person who bent it go unmentioned.
- market term
- A 10% drop, because 'crash' scares investors
- journalism rule
- Printed smaller than the error it fixes
- irony
- Often less accurate than the mistake it corrects
- psychology
- People remember the wrong claim, not the fix