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Use of sic greatly increased in the mid-20th century. [8] For example, in United States state-court opinions before 1944, sic appeared 1,239 times in the Westlaw database; in those from 1945 to 1990, it appeared 69,168 times, over 55 times as many. [2] Its use as a form of ridicule has been cited as a major factor in this increase. [2]
The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code as a method of standardizing industry classification for statistical purposes across agencies. Established in the United States in 1937, it is used by government agencies to
As for "obvious" typos in a written source, i would either 1) leave them in possibly with [sic], 2) corrent them, with the corrected words in brackets, or 3) correct them, with a parenthetical note like "Obvious typos in source have been corrected" similar to the "My emphasis" note used when addign italics or bold to a quote that did not ...
This template simplifies insertion of the "[sic]" notation, which is used where a textual error, or unexpected but intended text that may appear to be an error, has been faithfully reproduced from the original source. Note that MOS:QUOTE says: "trivial spelling and typographic errors should simply be corrected without comment […] unless the slip is textually important." Template parameters ...
(for example, "his interview with the Dolly Llama [sic]") However, insignificant spelling and typographic errors should simply be silently corrected (for example, correct basicly to basically). When applied to text that is linked, the syntax of the template may be adjusted to {{ sic |nolink=y}} (producing [ sic ] in the resulting linked text ...
When Schanley became a cop, he presented as female, according to the suit, which was filed February 18 in Tampa federal court. Six years later, it says Schanley “cut his hair short and no longer ...
The same thing occurs with the correct use of special characters in foreign words. Most English speakers will enter them incorrectly, and the rest of use[sic] have to come along afterwards and tidy up, as we do with punctuation.
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