Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!markb From: markb@hpda.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: (sic) - (nf) Message-ID: <412@hpda.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 16:35:06 EDT Article-I.D.: hpda.412 Posted: Thu Jun 16 16:35:06 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jun-83 09:06:44 EDT Lines: 15 #R:sdcrdcf:-32600:hpda:5700001:000:432 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 ...!ucbvax!hpda!markb