the.com/correction fluid
the original ctrl-z, sold by the bottle and brushed onto mistakes.
means A quick-drying, opaque white liquid painted over written or typed errors so you can write fresh text on top, sold in small bottles with a built-in brush.
from A plain descriptive compound: 'correction' (from Latin 'correctus,' past participle of 'corrigere,' to set right — 'com-' together plus 'regere,' to guide) paired with 'fluid' (Latin 'fluidus,' flowing, from 'fluere,' to flow). The famous bit isn't the words but the invention behind them: a mid-20th-century typist, frustrated by typos, mixed a white tempera paint in her kitchen blender to paint over mistakes — the product that grew from it became a desk staple, and the generic 'correction fluid' is what the bottle says when it can't say the trademark.
- Inventor
- Bette Nesmith Graham, a typist and single mom
- Famous son
- Her kid became a Monkee, Michael Nesmith
- Sold for
- Gillette bought Liquid Paper for 47.5 million
- Original name
- First marketed as Mistake Out in 1956
- Solvent fumes
- Once abused as an inhalant, hence reformulations
liquid paper — invented by bette nesmith graham in 1956, a secretary at ibm who created the first commercial correction fluid
wite-out — launched by bic in 1966, became the dominant correction fluid brand globally