{"id":61,"date":"2007-10-07T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:55:41","slug":"sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/sic\/","title":{"rendered":"Using [<em>sic<\/em>] Properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Note that our discussion of this topic also has been updated as it applies to use in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/using-sic-in-2024\/\">2024<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><em>Sic<\/em> is a Latin term meaning &#8220;thus.&#8221; It is used to indicate that something incorrectly written is intentionally being left as it was in the original. <em>Sic<\/em> is usually italicized and always surrounded by brackets to indicate that it was not part of the original. Place [<em>sic<\/em>] right after the error.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Example:<\/strong> <\/em>She wrote, \u201cThey made there [<em>sic<\/em>] beds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The correct sentence should have been, \u201cThey made their beds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why use [<em>sic<\/em>] at all? Why not just make the correction? If you are quoting material, it is generally expected that you will transcribe it exactly as it appeared in the original.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>sic<\/em> is also a command to attack (used especially in commanding a dog). The past tense is either <em>sicced<\/em> or <em>sicked<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<em>Examples:<\/em><\/strong> Sic \u2018em, Fido. Fido sicced (or sicked) the burglar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> With this meaning, the word is not italicized or enclosed in brackets.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful, however, because the word <em>sick<\/em>, meaning <em>ill<\/em>, is also a homonym of <em>sic<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<em>Example:<\/em><\/strong> Ananda felt sick with the flu yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nPlace [<em>sic<\/em>] where needed.<\/p>\n<p>1. I can lend you no more then ten dollars.<br \/>\n2. Who\u2019s turn is it to speak?<br \/>\n3. I don\u2019t know witch way to turn.<br \/>\n4. How did the weather effect your vacation plans?<br \/>\n5. Don\u2019t you think that every one should attend the meeting?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I can lend you no more then [<em>sic<\/em>] ten dollars. (than)<br \/>\n2. Who\u2019s [<em>sic<\/em>] turn is it to speak? (Whose)<br \/>\n3. I don\u2019t know witch [<em>sic<\/em>] way to turn. (which)<br \/>\n4. How did the weather effect [<em>sic<\/em>] your vacation plans? (affect)<br \/>\n5. Don\u2019t you think that every one [<em>sic<\/em>] should attend the meeting? (everyone)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Note that our discussion of this topic also has been updated as it applies to use in 2024.] Sic is a Latin term meaning &#8220;thus.&#8221; It is used to indicate that something incorrectly written is intentionally being left as it was in the original. Sic is usually italicized and always surrounded by brackets to indicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-effective-writing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}