Please could somebody explains what [sic] means

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

Please

here

"thus" as in, "their mistake, not mine" usually

It means 'the person I am quoting made a grammatical/ spelling mistake and I am so clever, I didn't change it but I want you to know I noticed it.'

Oh thank the lord someone has asked .

Waiting in anticipation (does that make sense? I am EXTREEMLY scared to be posting in the pedants' corner ).

Too long to post as per usual .

I love [sic]

Yes. It means 'I am quoting this even though I know it's wrong'. So if you quote something with a apelling mistake in it, you keep the spelling mistake and put [sic] in brackets.

EG

She had written 'I think I'll go their [sic] on holiday' in her essay.

yes it is very smug

spelling mistake.

Argh.

I always think it means "Spelling Is Crap"

like if you see someone wrote

MN is the best website on he earth

you would quote it

"MN is the best website on he earth" [sic] ie. I know it should be the, not he, I am quoting with their mistake. Kind of.

cor blimey, am not smug enough to use that
Many thanks

I saw it used once and had no idea what it meant, perhaps I shouldn't have thought "what a muppet, unable to spell but getting all uppity with that fancy bracet thingy"

I've used it on here - I need help, don't I?

no, it makes sense now I know what it means!!

me too, Quattro. Only once, though!

I'm 35 and only realised that Natch was short for Naturally last week. Before that i thought it meant 'eek'.

It means 'said in context'.

(I'm probably missing out on a joke here aren't I - are we supposed to be coming up with witty/scathing answers? )

Erm, well, I think it actually means 'thus', as theinsider said earlier on, fattipuffs. I hate to be pedantic, but we are in pedants' corner