Correct
Correct verb - To remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from.
Mistook
Both words in one sentence
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The Russian translator mistook it for garbled Russian, and, in the preface, he chastised Frank Herbert for "picking up the most pleasant-sounding words out of a Russian dictionary"; to convey the purported effect, he translated the song into (grammatically-correct) Hindi.
Source: As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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