What does 'sic' mean?

Answer 1

Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.

Answer 2

I believe that 'sic' is usually used in print to designate a mispelled word or grammatical error in a 'source' document that has been left uncorrected in a new article refering to the 'source' material.

Answer 3

You mean like, to sic a dog on someone? It means to make the dog attack a person.

Unless you mean sick as in cool.

Answer 4

In print, like "[sic]", it stands for "Said In Context". For example, if you're quoting someone who wrote:

"What does the wrod "sic" mean"

You'd use [sic] after "wrod" since they misspelled it, to indicate that the person you're quoting misspelled that, and not you.

Answer 5

sic
–adverb
Latin. so; thus:
usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim:
He signed his name as e. e. cummings (sic).

Answer 6

It's Latin for "thus" and it's used to show that someone actually wrote something this way, that the mistake was in the original, not by the person quoting it.

Answer 7

You usually see it near text that looks garbled
or that maybe it got confused from the original
source.

It means "This is what was said". That is, the
editor is acknowledging that it looks strange
and he knows it, but he is passing it on exactly.

You'll frequently see it near misspellings
from quotes.

Answer 8

It means the original quotation had an error in it, and you wanted people to know it wasn't you that created the error.


For more information, see:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000207.html

Answer 9

sic, sicut
Latin for ’so’, ’like that’, ’really like that’
it is used if you want to stress a quotation, or
if you want to say that you know it might sound weird but it is really like that.

You are welcome

Answer 10

awesome