What does [sic] mean?

Question

I see it typed in newspaper and magazine articles but I have no idea what it means!

Answer 1

Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", "as such", 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 has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error.

Answer 2

The "sic" in square brackets is an editorial marker.  It's a note to the reader or the proofreader, saying that whatever comes before it is exactly how it appears in the source material.

The word "sic" in Latin means something like "thus" or "so".  So, the notation can be read as meaning "it is thus" or "it is so".

Basically, it's a way for the writer to pass the buck for a mistake.  It's like saying "I know it looks like there's an error here, but it's not my fault.  Whatever I'm quoting really does look like this."

Answer 3

"Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", "as such", or "just as that"."

And normally the word "sic" is written in square brackets.

It basically means that the word quoted is written exactly as it was written, or spoken, instead of correcting the error.

For example if I wrote "The man through the ball".

Obviously "through" should be "threw" and is spelt incorrectly, it would be written "The man through [sic] the ball".

That way it also shows that the person writing the document also didn't misspell, as it was written the exactly the same as the original quote.

Answer 4

it means hectikkkkkkk braah

Answer 5

The word sic may be used either to show that an uncommon or archaic usage is reported faithfully: for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution:

The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker...

or to highlight an error, sometimes for the purpose of ridicule or irony, as in these examples:

Warehouse has been around for 30 years and has 263 stores, suggesting a large fan base. The chain sums up its appeal thus: “styley [sic], confident, s**y, glamorous, edgy, clean and individual, with it's [sic] finger on the fashion pulse"

It is also sometimes used for comic effect:

The Daily Mail was the first newspaper [sic] …

If text containing a quotation is itself quoted in a third text, it may not be possible for a reader to tell whether any "[sic]" in the inner quotation was added by the writer of the second text or the writer of the third text, or whether the anomaly highlighted was introduced by the first writer or the second. One way to show the source is to add "(bracketed material in original)" or a similar parenthetical reference at the end of the quotation.