You are a newspaper reporter. Miss X gives you a note. You write a story about Miss X. You write, "Miss X gave me a note. It says, 'Please take care of my kat (sic) during my too (sic) weeks in the hospital.' " Of course, she misspelled "cat" and "two" in her note. So you put (sic) after those words because you want to say: Dear readers, I did not misspell those words. That is exactly how