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Sic note

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

Google’s language skills (sic)

We all make mistakes. To quote the Augustan satirist Alexander Pope, ‘to err is humanistic’. But we also like to point out other people’s mistakes and in the written form we do this with ‘sic’, the term inserted into a sentence (in parentheses) to make it clear that the mistake is not ours.

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