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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: [sic]?

What in the world does [sic] mean when it's placed after a word?
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An intentional mis-use/mis-spelling noted.

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So if you're critiquing Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard, for example: thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanno yoo scruff. etc.. then you'd probably use it quite a lot
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