What does it mean when you see (sic) in a piece of text?

Question

Never been able to work it out!

Answer 1

It means you are reproducing exactly what someone else wrote, including an error. The sic means "i know this is misspelled, but that's how it was in the original".

Answer 2

Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", or "just as that". In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material is a verbatim reproduction of the quoted original and is not a transcription error.

Answer 3

In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material is a verbatim reproduction of the quoted original and is not a transcription error.