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This is really off topic, sorry in advance. Why did you use "(sic)"? I always thought it stood for "Spelling InCorrect", but lately I keep seeing people use it
by idProQuo 13y ago
This is really off topic, sorry in advance.
Why did you use "(sic)"? I always thought it stood for "Spelling InCorrect", but lately I keep seeing people use it in other contexts.
- jdminhbg 13y ago'Sic' is Latin for 'thus,' the meaning in quotations is "no really, what I just wrote." So here it's "actually billions, that's not a mistake"; in a quote with incorrect spelling it's "this is the way it appears in what I'm quoting, it's not my mistake."
- guard-of-terra 13y agoI think it's Latin for "I'm not making this quote up!"