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$250k to sell it > The only way forward, the Couttses say, is to have the 22-ton mural removed, a major undertaking which over the last month has involved “re
by h0l0cube 3y ago
$250k to sell it
> The only way forward, the Couttses say, is to have the 22-ton mural removed, a major undertaking which over the last month has involved “reinforcing it with 12 layers of resin, fibreglass [sic] and five tonnes [sic] of steel and using a 40ft crane to take it away.”
> The Couttses hope to sell the massive work in order to offset the $250,000 cost. “We are just normal people,” Mr. Coutts told the Sun, “so we’d like to sell it and make something back on it.”
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- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoI find the [sic] amusing because those would both be the correct British way to reference the material and the mass. The oddball in that blurb would be interspersing feet.
- h0l0cube 3y agoYeah, I was confused by that too.
- ralferoo 3y agoGiven that the costs are in dollars in the quoted passage, it's clear that this article is aimed at a US audience. So when reporting a written quote with sections that a reader might assume was an error but is actually correct because it's a direct quote, using [sic] is exactly the right thing to do.
- orra 3y agoOrdinary people have nowhere near that amount of cash (or investments). I can only imagine they had potential buyers lined up.