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Subject: Re: sic
From: Faye L. Dyess
Date: September 09, 1999
And just think, all these years I thought it meant "the other guy spelled it
wrong, and I'm leaving it that way!".
Thanks for enlightening me.
Faye
-----Original Message-----
From: JCulbertson
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: sic
The original Latin ma\eaning (from 35 years ago?) = "thus."
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>John Culbertson
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>[email protected]
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steven J. Coker
>To:
>Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 8:55 PM
>Subject: sic
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Extracted From:
Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary, by Merriam-Webster Inc. 1984
sic means intentionally so written. Used after a printed word or passage
>to
indicate that it is intended exactly as printed or to indicate that it
>exactly
reproduces an original.
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