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This is from my Oxford concise English dictionary, 9ed (1995): > sic usage: the word sic is placed in brackets after a word that appears odd or erroneous to sh
by EdwardCoffin 8y ago
This is from my Oxford concise English dictionary, 9ed (1995):
> sic usage: the word sic is placed in brackets after a word that appears odd or erroneous to show that the word is quoted exactly as it stands in the original
There's also this part of the entry in Wikipedia [1]
> A sic may show that an uncommon or archaic expression is reported faithfully
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#To_denote_archaisms_and_dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#To_denote_archaisms_and_di...
- setr 8y agoI still feel like it comes with the implication that you're not expected to see this as a normal term; but in this case, its apparently perfectly well-known, just in a particular field that HN doesn't perhaps specialize in. It would be like adding [sic] to articles about quantum mechanics, using terms that a physicist naturally know, but a programmer wouldn't. And that'd just be weird (or rather, a lot of [sic]'s going around)