earmark un-sicced

Chris Waigl chris at LASCRIBE.NET
Thu Aug 10 19:20:59 UTC 2006


> Just had a look at the Guardian article that Chris W cited, and the [sic]
> mark has already been removed.
>
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1841815,00.html>

So the [sic] was probably an internal editor's mark after verification of
the quote, and not a mark of a lexical judgement.

Chris Waigl
more used to _earmark v._

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