What does it mean when if find "(sic)" written in a book?

Question

English is not my mother tongue. Thanks for helping.

Answer 1

_sic_ is from Latin meaning "thus" or "so"...
A person usually uses it when he/she is quoting someone else and uses it to assure readers that the quote is accurate (he/she quoted that someone else correctly) even though the spelling or logic in the quote might make them think otherwise.
Hope that helps...

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.

Answer 3

It's the same as if, when you quote someone using the words and spelling exactly as they said or wrote it, by adding [sic] right after the quote, you are telling the reader:
"Hey, now don't blame me for any misspellings, poor grammar or punctuation, I'm just telling you, for the sake of accuracy, exactly what he/she said."

Answer 4

It comes from the Latin "sicut" meaning just as. The word or phrase is not spelled correctly but since it's being quoted, it has to match exactly what the speaker or writer said.

Answer 5

It is often found after a quote when there is a word in the quote which was originally misspelled and in the quotation it is allowed to remain in its original form for authenticity.

It would be what you wrote after the misspelled words in something that I wrote when you were quoting what I wrote.

It is like saying I didn't misspell this the guy who I got the idea from misspelled it.

Answer 6

from the Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary (i love this thing its great):
intentionally so written; used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original

In other words it is used when i person (generally) uses bad grammar ( he said he seed [sic] it all) or has used a "confuseable" (or whatever it is they are called) to create a sarcastic statement.

Answer 7

no spell check, actually Latin.