Sic (latin)

''Sic'' is a reproduction of the original quoted material and is not a transcription error.

This 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 their Speaker...") or to highlight an error, often for the purpose of ridicule or irony (for instance, " Dan Quayle famously changed a student's spelling to ' Potatoe ' [''sic'' ").

In Folk Etymology , "sic" is sometimes thought to be an abbreviation of "same in Copy ," "spelled incorrectly" or "said in context," to cite but a few mistaken examples.

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