CarnaticKarnataka   The Magsaysay award citation happens to read leading exponent of classical and semiclassical songs in the Karnataka tradition of South India Now while the usual English spelling these days is Carnatic music the version in the citation is not strictly speaking a mistake after all in most Indian languages it is still called something like that and Carnatica is merely an overly Latinized spelling More importantly and generally mistake or not that we should not change a direct quote is one of the most important rules of all writing We can acknowledge that we notice a mistake with  or similar or point out our change in some other way or simply resort to paraphrase but to silently change a quote and not indicate it is wrong Sometimes popular books replace archaic English spellings with modern ones I think even this ought not be done without at least a remark