What does it mean when people write [sic] when quoting someone?

[Evie]

i.e


When a follower of his Twitter account responded that he was sure he would not make a similar comment about the BBC's schedule, Ross, 49, responded: "BBC has sh*** on occasionally fer [sic] sure."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvand...itter.html

[rob g]

sic means that the quote is not quite accurate but said with all good faith in it's accuracy.

[SarahLou]

The term sic is most often used in quoted material (usually in square brackets, and sometimes italicized) to indicate that the preceding segment of the quote was copied faithfully, in spite of a mistake or seeming mistake; that is, that the mistake or seeming mistake was in the original text, and not due to misquoting on the part of the present writer.

[probablygraham]

Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", "as such", or "in such a manner".

It's used when someone is quoting something which is wrong, incorrectly spelt or unusual, and the author is trying to make sure you understand that the spelling mistake or whatever is not theirs but was in the original quote.

[Luckypickle281]

It means that the quotation has errors (e.g. spelling) which the user of the quote does not want to be associated with. In the quote you reproduced, the person is saying, "Hey Ross wrote this, but look there's a spelling mistake ("fer" instead of "for")". I wouldn't have made it myself and this is exactly how he spelled it.

[W H]

In this context sic means reproduced with error intact and acknowledged

see below link

http://define.com/Sic

[D C]

sic: means spelling incorrect