What does sic mean?

Submitted by david on September 2, 2005 - 5:46am.
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I have been wondering what [sic] meant for a long long time. I have seen it a bunch of times, and used context clues to determine that it meant something about a mistake in a quote. I saw in my Gmail Web Clips thing (is that still only for a select few?) that Ask Yahoo explained what it meant. So basically it means that the mistake in the quote is not my fault. I feel so relieved to know. Now I can use that all the time when I'm quoting wrong quotes.

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