There have been many occasions when I’d be reading something, and I came across this word. My logic could never make sense out of it. So, finally, I looked it up.

The word sic may be used either to show that an uncommon or archaic usage is reported faithfully: for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution:

The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker…

or to highlight an error, sometimes for the purpose of ridicule or irony, as in these examples:

Warehouse has been around for 30 years and has 263 stores, suggesting a large fan base. The chain sums up its appeal thus: “styley [sic], confident, sexy, glamorous, edgy, clean and individual, with it’s [sic] finger on the fashion pulse.”

It is also sometimes used for comic effect:

The Daily Mail was the first newspaper [sic] …

The More You Know!