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Sic is a Latin word that means "thus" or, in writing, "it was thus in the source material".

Sic may also refer to:
  • Sic, Cluj, a commune in Romania
  • SiC, Silicon carbide, a semiconducting material, also used to make metalworking tools from
  • SIC, the regional code for Sicily
SIC as an acronym may stand for:

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Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut [1] meaning "thus", "so", 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 from the quoted original and is not a transcription error.[2]

Overview

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, often for the purpose of ridicule or irony, as in this example:
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, sexy, glamorous, edgy, clean and individual, with it's [sic] finger on the fashion pulse.”[3]


If text containing a quote is itself quoted in a third text, it may not be possible for a reader to tell whether any "[sic]" in the inner quote 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.

The word sic is sometimes erroneously thought to be an acronym from any of a vast number of phrases such as "spelling is correct", "same in copy", "spelled incorrectly", "said in context", or "sans intention comique" (French: without comic intent). These "backronyms" are all false etymologies.[4]

Derivation

In the Italo-Western Romance languages it was the basis for their word for "yes": sí (Spanish), sim (Portuguese), sì (Italian), si (French for "yes, on the contrary"). Medieval Latin sometimes used sic as "yes", reflecting the Romance usage.

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References

1. ^ Truss, Lynne (2003), Eats, Shoots and Leaves, p163. London: Profile Books, 2003. ISBN 1-86197-612-7
2. ^ Wilson, Kenneth G. (1993). "sic (adv.)", The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.. Columbia University Press. Retrieved on 2007-06-15. 
3. ^ Ashworth, Anne. "Chain reaction: Warehouse", The Times, 2006-06-21. Retrieved on 2007-01-06. 
4. ^ "What does (sic) mean?", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-05-12. 

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Comuna Sic
Szék község

County Cluj County
Area 56.37 km
Population (2002) 2764
Density 49 inh/km
Geographical coordinates
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Mayor Ioan Sallai, UDMR, since 2004
Component villages Sic
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Silicon carbide (SiC) is a ceramic compound of silicon and carbon that is manufactured on a large scale for use mainly as an abrasive but also occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral moissanite.
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Regione Autonoma Siciliana


Map highlighting the location of Sicilia in Italy

Capital Palermo
President Salvatore Cuffaro
(UDC-CdL)
Provinces Agrigento
Caltanissetta
Catania
Enna
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The San Isidro Club (SIC) is a rugby union club in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires (URBA).

The club was founded in December 14, 1935, after several players and part of the management of the club were dismissed from
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“Schwarz criterion” redirects here. For the term in voting theory, see Schwartz criterion.


In statistics, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is a statistical criterion for model selection.
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Availability
Terrestrial
PAL Normally tuned to 3
Satellite
TV Cabo Channel 3
TVTEL 3
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TV Cabo Channel 3
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Clix SIC - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação is Portugal's third terrestrial television station.
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The Simplified Instructional Computer is a hypothetical computer described in Leland Beck's book System Software. Most real microprocessors have lots of quirks built-in to increase efficiency.
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Southeastern Illinois College is a public community college located in Harrisburg, Illinois. The College was founded in 1960 and offers Associate degrees. There is a secondary campus, the David L. Stanley White County Center, in Carmi, Illinois.
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Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys', located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1880 by Fr.
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The Standard Industrial Classification (abbreviated 'SIC') is a United States government system for classifying industries by a four-digit code. Established in the 1930s, it is being supplanted by the six-digit North American Industry Classification System, which was released in
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are standards and interpretations adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Many of the standards forming part of IFRS are known by the older name of International Accounting Standards (IAS).
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The State Information Center is a Chinese government think tank affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission established in 1987. The State Information Center sponsors the China Economic Information Network, a national information network that provides broad
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Super Imaginative Chogokin (S.I.C.) is a popular toy line featuring figures based on characters created by Ishinomori Shotaro.

History

The S.I.C line debuted in December 1998 with its first figure, Volume 01: Kikaider. Popularity grew for S.I.
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To be sick can mean:
  • Having a disease or illness. This is the original meaning.
  • The act of vomiting.
Sick may also refer to:
  • Sick (magazine), a humour magazine
  • Sick (Sow album), an album by Sow
  • Sick

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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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Writing, is the representation of language in a textual medium; that is with the use of signs or symbols. It is distinguished from illustration such as cave drawings and paintings, and recording language via a non-textual medium such as magnetic tape audio.
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Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text. With respect to computer science, the term is sometimes said to only strictly apply to the square or box type.
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In typography, italic type refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. The influence from calligraphy can be seen in their usual slight slanting to the right.
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Spelling is the writing of a word or words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted standard order. It is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of language.
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In grammar, a phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.

For example the house at the end of the street (example 1) is a phrase. It acts like a noun.
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Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks (listed at right), inter-word spaces, capitalization, and indentation.
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A transcription error is a specific type of data entry error that is commonly made by human operators or by optical character recognition programs (OCR). Human transcription errors are commonly the result of typographical mistakes, putting fingers in the wrong place during touch
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In language, an archaism is the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current. This can either be done deliberately (to achieve a specific effect) or as part of a specific jargon (for example in law) or formula (for example in religious contexts).
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Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history).
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Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and IBM, that are formed using the initial letters of words or word parts in a phrase or name.
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Copy refers to written material, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout, in a large number of contexts, including magazines, advertising, and book publishing.
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A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym.
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Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. It comprises 38 languages in 2 subsets: Italo-Dalmatian, and Western.
  • Italo-Dalmatian includes Italian, Neapolitan and the extinct Dalmatian.

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Yes is a common English word indicating agreement. It is the opposite of no. In English, "yes" is also used to answer a negative question or statement, "Yes" is similar in meaning to "yeah" and "yea," both casual variants of the term.
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