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What does (sic) mean? | Notes and Queries | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | Sic transit Gloriam or "there but for the grace of God go I." It is used to reflect the errors of others by quoting them directly especially in the use of malapropisms or bad spelling. |
 | | Sic is short for Sicut, a Latin word which, for those familiar with Latin choral works, crops up in Sicut erat in principio... |
 | | (sic) is an abbreviation for 'standard idiom communique' which, to the illiterate proletariat, meant that the words preceding (sic) were in fact spelled correctly, and that they should refrain from posting idiotic complaints about the subject. |
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