If you are quoting or using content with errors verbatum, tag each error with [sic]. If you are altering content to make it sound better, you should perhaps identify that another way, such as with an asterisk, parentheses, or a footnote. We would not [sic] an entire sentence at the ...
transitive verb to indicate that something is a verbatim quote by using the word “sic”; Some British journalists sicize American usage; some do not. Origin: 2010: intentional coinage by Steve Kass (http://www.stevekass.com), influenced by the words parenthesize, laicize, and sicked (p...
And then we hear here the allusion to the most simply perfect sentence in the Bible, proper noun against past-tense verb: ‘Jesus wept’ (John 11:35). The anti-absorptive gesture of the allusion throws us out of the loop before we’ve had time to even find our seats, and we think ...