sic
pronunciation
How to pronounce sic in British English:
UK [sɪk]
How to pronounce sic in American English:
US [sɪk]
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- Verb:
- urge a dog to attack someone
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- Adverb:
- intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)
Word Origin
- sic (adv.)
- insertion in printed quotation to call attention to error in the original; Latin, literally "so, thus, in this way," related to or emphatic of si "if," from PIE root *so- "this, that" (cognates: Old English sio "she"). Used regularly in English articles from 1876, perhaps by influence of similar use in French (1872). [I]t amounts to Yes, he did say that, or Yes, I do mean that, in spite of your natural doubts. It should be used only when doubt is natural; but reviewers & controversialists are tempted to pretend that it is, because (sic) provides them with a neat & compendious form of sneer. [Fowler] Sic passim is "generally so throughout."
- sic (v.)
- "to set upon, attack;" see sick (v.).
Example
- 1. The news of his death knocked me for sic .
- 2. You want me to sic my cousin travis on him ?
- 3. What is it ? I 'll sic the dog on you !
- 4. They show the word , but they don 't show any context - where did it came ( sic ) from ?
- 5. Men who liked housework a lot ( sic ) spent around 60 % more time per weekday on it than those who were indifferent to it , sparing their partners up to ten minutes of drudgery .