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Subject: Re: Re: (sic) - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 16:35:06 EDT
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hpda!markb    Jun 16 13:33:00 1983

>From a previous note...

	(sic) stands for "set in case" ...

Where do people dream these things up? `sic' is a Latin word meaning
`thus' or `so'.  It may have had this acronym constructed for it by
some typesetter but did not start out as an acronym.  BOY, I wish
some people could bother looking things up in the dictionary before
sending off their favorite definition of a word or phrase!

			Mark Bales
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