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“ [Sic]” is used when the text is quoted verbatim. The purpose is to tell the reader that it was the writer of the quoted piece of writing who made the error, not the writer of the current article. So, it’s effectively a way of laying the blame clearly on the quoted author and asserting that you do know how to spell, really.
[Sic] signals that a quote appears as originally found, without edits. Sic usually appears in parentheses or brackets, sometimes with the letters in italics. In this context it means “intentionally so written.”
30 Αυγ 2024 · Journalism: Journalists often use “ (sic)” when quoting public figures or documents verbatim, especially if the original statement contains errors or controversial language. Example: “The governor tweeted, ‘We are dedicated to providing axcess [sic] to healthcare for all citizens.'”
8 Σεπ 2014 · From the Latin for “so” or “thus,” [sic] indicates that the text was so written originally. [Sic] (sometimes rendered in italics, with or without the brackets), allows a publication to tell readers that this is what the original writer wrote; we’re merely repeating it, so don’t blame us.
23 Σεπ 2022 · Use the word sic to indicate that a quote has been reproduced exactly, including any grammatical or spelling errors. Sic, which in Latin means “so” and is loosely translated as “intentionally so written,” tells the reader that the error was in the original text (and has not been made by you).
24 Ιουλ 2014 · 'Sic' is specifically used when you don't want to correct the quotation (e.g. to highlight an error in the original text). If you do need to correct, edit or add to a quotation, you would put the corrected text in square brackets instead.
Like e.g. (or exempli gratia), mea culpa, and countless other terms, sic is just another word we’ve borrowed from the supposedly dead language. It literally means “thus” or “so,” as in sic...
