Apprising you of an error
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- October
- 24
A very miffed-sounding reader left me an anonymous message this morning noting that there had been a vocabulary error in today’s story about rats at Clarkstown North. It was in the following sentence: “Keller-Cogan said she appraised parents of the issue in a letter dated Friday.”
Did you find the goof? It came in the form of an errant “a” — add the letter to the word “apprising” and it turns into the word “appraising.” Whoops.
For the record, here are the definitions of the two words, courtesy of Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition:
apprise: to inform or notify.
appraise: 1. to set a price for; decide the value of, esp. officially; 2. to judge the quality or worth of.
If Keller-Cogan had actually appraised parents, that would have been a whole other story. Many thanks to the anonymous English lover who spotted the error!
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on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 5:32 pm by Alice Gomstyn.
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