It is Latin for thus.
When you quote something that contains a misspelled word you leave the quotation intact but put (sic) after the misspelled word to indicate your superiority to the writer.
I see some things so badly mangled these days that it is obvious some writers are giving dictation to computers but are not proofreading or are using computer proofreaders that do not detect grammatical or syntactic errors if the words are spelled correctly.
When you quote something that contains a misspelled word you leave the quotation intact but put (sic) after the misspelled word to indicate your superiority to the writer.
I see some things so badly mangled these days that it is obvious some writers are giving dictation to computers but are not proofreading or are using computer proofreaders that do not detect grammatical or syntactic errors if the words are spelled correctly.
levistep said:
It can also be used for grammatical errors, for instance the above example where the adjective 'wrong' is used instead of the adverb 'wrongly'.
You originally spelled Sophomore wrongly, but it was the wrong spelling.
Most Americans have stopped using adverbs to the extent that this part of speech is becoming extinct.
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