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Larue2005 Posted 23 years ago
Grammar
Quotes in British
Help! I have a paper to finish!
I have several quotes from various British authors. If a word is spelled right, but in the British spelling, do I need to put [sic] after it?
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I have several quotes from various British authors. If a word is spelled right, but in the British spelling, do I need to put [sic] after it?
THANK YOU!
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" Yep, I assume you're writing in American English; it lets the reader know the "mistakes" in the quote are actually correct in that context.
- " Yep, I assume you're writing in American English; it lets the reader know the "mistakes" in the quote are actually correct in that context.
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http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/s.html
"[sic]": square brackets for an interpolation, and the Latin word sic, "thus, this way." (Since it's a foreign word, it's always in italics; since it's a whole word and not an abbreviation, it gets no period.) It amounts to saying, "It really i
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