Thursday, July 15, 2010

New Word of The Day : Erata

I was busy copying the Standard 6 analysis item for excel when out of sudden Cikgu Awang gave me this particular letter from PPD.

The title is ERATA ENGLISH EXCEL PAPER 2 SECTION C.

Seriously,this is my very first time to hear the erata word.
So I assume the word erata means correction as section C punya contoh jawapan memang salah.And I thought it is a Malay word and kagum dengan diri senirik for having a new Malay vocab.

Then,sambil-sambil I nak muntah dok key-in analysis result Standard 6 yang tak berkesudahan tuh, I amek Kamus Dewan kat atas meja Che Nie.Aktiviti melapang minda kata orang- and simply checked the word again.Well,there is no such word in there.


Due to my curiosity - aku ialah pembaca Nancy Drew ye kecik-kecik dulu.Eventhough curiosity kill the cat,Mak Cik tetap gigih search the word.

Guess what?

Errata is an English word and it is a plural for erratum.
Erratum = An error in printing or writing ,especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.

Agak-agak kalo I gih betulkan tajuk surat neh kat PPD derang pindahkan I ke Pulau Banggi tak?

Tapik I kan cek the word in Kamus Dewan Edisi Ketiga.Maybe latest edisi the word erata dah diBahasa Melayukan kan?
Apa masalah kamu neh Cik Huda?
Siapkan analisis excel tuh dendiam plis.

5 comments:

ilya&fahmy said...

hahaha..dalam kes keja I skang, meninggalkan sikap ingin tahu yang amat tinggi adalah dimaafkan..sbb, nnt lg I nk tau..lg I kena wat..kahkahkah..tp sbb sikap dan semangat ingin tahu jugaklah I baca entry u..tgk tajuk pon dah rasa ingin tahu..syabas!

p/s: pulau banggi tu kat mana?kalu bangi, ok laa..sila btolkan surat itu skang!

Azizi Abd Rahim said...

erata was never a Malay word..pencabulan bahasa neh!!!

(macamlah tulis kejap melayu kejap english tak mencabul bahasa..bad me, bad me..;p)

miss Bed said...

mebi gak dah dimelayukan.. la nih kan byk ja perkataan english dah dimelayukan

zz said...

hahaha....reading ur blog, i'm actually seeing myself in the next few years....

h-huda said...

Yaya,
Hahahahah.Bagus,Sikap ingin tahu macam neh perlu disemaikan.Cuma u tak yah praktikkan sgt dalam budaya kerja u.(nice kan i,nasehat sgt penoh kaseh syg.haha)

p/s:Pulau Banggi is in Kudat.Dh dekat2 Phillipinos tuh.So I better reserve my erratum kan?

Jijoy,
Language abusement in deliberate way surely cud be tolerated - as I also practise it.Haha.

Kc Bed,
I dun think so but better we think it that way so tak rasa bersalah sgt kalo tak betulkan.Hiks.

Zz,
U cud do the improvisation then.Haha;p.

 
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