diff --git a/core/continuations/continuations-docs.factor b/core/continuations/continuations-docs.factor
index a1e2525c14..5fc86e25d4 100755
--- a/core/continuations/continuations-docs.factor
+++ b/core/continuations/continuations-docs.factor
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ $nl
 "Two words raise an error in the innermost error handler for the current dynamic extent:"
 { $subsection throw }
 { $subsection rethrow }
-"Two words for establishing an error handler:"
+"Words for establishing an error handler:"
 { $subsection cleanup }
 { $subsection recover }
+{ $subsection ignore-errors }
 "Unhandled errors are reported in the listener and can be debugged using various tools. See " { $link "debugger" } "."
 { $subsection "errors-restartable" }
 { $subsection "errors-post-mortem" } ;
@@ -148,6 +149,10 @@ HELP: recover
 { $values { "try" quotation } { "recovery" "a quotation with stack effect " { $snippet "( error -- )" } } }
 { $description "Calls the " { $snippet "try" } " quotation. If an exception is thrown in the dynamic extent of the " { $snippet "try" } " quotation, restores the data stack and calls the " { $snippet "recovery" } " quotation to handle the error." } ;
 
+HELP: ignore-errors
+{ $values { "try" quotation } }
+{ $description "Calls the quotation. If an exception is thrown in the dynamic extent of the quotation, restores the data stack and returns." } ;
+
 HELP: rethrow
 { $values { "error" object } }
 { $description "Throws an error without saving the current continuation in the " { $link error-continuation } " global variable. This is done so that inspecting the error stacks sheds light on the original cause of the exception, rather than the point where it was rethrown." }
diff --git a/core/continuations/continuations.factor b/core/continuations/continuations.factor
index a0aa59332e..d68b5b2433 100755
--- a/core/continuations/continuations.factor
+++ b/core/continuations/continuations.factor
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ SYMBOL: thread-error-hook
 : recover ( try recovery -- )
     >r [ swap >c call c> drop ] curry r> ifcc ; inline
 
+: ignore-errors ( quot -- )
+    [ drop ] recover ; inline
+
 : cleanup ( try cleanup-always cleanup-error -- )
     over >r compose [ dip rethrow ] curry
     recover r> call ; inline
diff --git a/extra/tools/test/test.factor b/extra/tools/test/test.factor
index 69093f18a6..0ab68f502e 100755
--- a/extra/tools/test/test.factor
+++ b/extra/tools/test/test.factor
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ SYMBOL: this-test
 : must-fail ( quot -- )
     [ drop t ] must-fail-with ;
 
-: ignore-errors ( quot -- )
-    [ drop ] recover ; inline
-
 : (run-test) ( vocab -- )
     dup vocab-source-loaded? [
         vocab-tests
diff --git a/extra/vocabs/monitor/monitor.factor b/extra/vocabs/monitor/monitor.factor
index d3e4a44896..32a104687e 100755
--- a/extra/vocabs/monitor/monitor.factor
+++ b/extra/vocabs/monitor/monitor.factor
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ SYMBOL: vocab-monitor
     [
         "" resource-path t <monitor> vocab-monitor set-global
         [ monitor-thread t ] "Vocabulary monitor" spawn-server drop
-    ] [ drop ] recover ;
+    ] ignore-errors ;
 
 [ start-monitor-thread ] "vocabs.monitor" add-init-hook