Jagran Correspondent, New Delhi. A student from Delhi has caught the mistake of a word in American-British bestselling author Bill Bryson’s popular science book ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0’ after 20 years. After that, the new edition of the book was released by improving the wording. The author thanks Kanishk Sharma, a class 11 student of Air Force Bal Bharti School, for spotting this etymological error. The book is the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, remaining on the Sunday Times bestseller list for 106 weeks and winning both the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize. In the updated version, Bryson thanks Kanishka Sharma for pointing out the error that remained in the book for more than 20 years and that probably no one recognized. In the original edition of the book, published in 2003, asteroid was a Latin word meaning “starry”. While reading, Kanishka noticed that asteroid actually comes from the Greek word – aster, meaning “stars”. The student wrote about this to the publisher, who relayed his message to Bryson. The author immediately responded and assured that this error will be corrected in the new version. This has now been fixed in the latest version.