Erratum Erratum An erratum or corrigendum (plurals: errata, corrigenda) (comes from ) is a correction of a published text. As a general rule, publishers issue an erratum for a production error (i.e., an error introduced during the publishing process) and a corrigendum for an author's error. An erratum is most commonly issued shortly after its original text is published. Patches to security issues in a computer program are also sometimes called errata. "Erratum", like "corrigendum", can also be used as a term for an error itself. According to the "Chicago Manual of Style", "Errata, lists of errors and their corrections, may
What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.