A town created a repair fund for small shops after repeated floods. The fund subsidized the cost of replacing damaged electrical systems, so shop owners paid only part of each bill. A newspaper first reported that the owners had financed the town's recovery program. That wording reversed the direction of support: public money helped the owners, not the other way around. The paper corrected the sentence and added an important limit. The fund did not cover lost sales or ordinary renovations; it applied only to safety repairs verified after a flood. The correction changed more than one verb. It restored the actor, the recipient, and the scope of the aid. Readers who noticed only that money and shops appeared in both versions could miss the error. In this context, a familiar financial word was appropriate only when its grammatical subject and affected group matched the actual flow of support.