What does (sic)mean?

[Robble]

I was reading a magazine article yesterday - can't remember the statement but it had (sic) after the sentence. I realised I've been seeing this for years but never known what it meant. Any help?

[jno]

It's Latin for 'thus' or 'so'. It usually appears in a quotation, when the original speaker has made an error or said something that looks odd. The writer will put sic in brackets after the odd bit, to emphasise that the quotation is correct and if a mistake has been made it was by the original speaker not the writer.

[nigidivitch]

It means that the sentence before has been written the way it is intentionally - so likely to be a quote that someone else spelt incorrectly, and the writer has kept the errors for a particular lingustic style or whatever - "weather its spelt wrong or not" (sic)...
I think!!?

[nigidivitch]

Sorry JNO - didn't mean to repeat!! - you beat me to it! 

[jno]

answers in stereo always sound more convincing!

[Robble]

Ah right - that makes much more sense now. Thanks guys- 3 stars for the both of you! Hurrah!

[rdgtchr]

As a reading teacher I must comment on nigidivitch's entry. You didn't need to bother to spell the word "weather" instead of "whether" as your example since you had already mispelled the word "spelled". The past tense of "spell" is not "spelt" but "spelled". There is no such word as "spelt".

[searchme]

Spelt--an inferior species of wheat.

Spelt (noun) - a mode of spelling.

Both in Chambers and Oxford English Dics.

Look 'em up Mr.Pedagogue

[searchme]

I seeme too remember yoo-dint yew teech mee?

[nigidivitch]

Wow! rdgtchr - you're a sad little excuse for a human aren't you! Well done "reading teacher" you spotted an error, all who know you must be very proud. "Spelt" is a word however, so perhaps you haven't read quite enough.

[mradam2]

rdgtchr, does it really matter if nigidivitch spelled "spelled" wrong? Because you misspelled "misspelled". The teacher has just been taught. What a ******' clown!