Business & Technical Writing/Editorial question

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Expert: - 12/19/2005


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What is the difference in an academic journal between an Erratum and a Corrigendum?

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I will confess to never having come across the latter before. So I looked them both up. They pretty close to being synonyms.  They both appear to be an error in a printed work that is published with correction after the printing of the original. I don't think that in an academic journal the meaning would change.

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