The insertion of sic indicates that the title has not been altered or corrected for VanBiema’s article, nor was it an error introduced by VanBiema. In the instance above, the comics collection is facetiously titled Funny Aminals, with the consonants of the familiar word animals transposed. Sometimes the quoted text contains an error of grammar or spelling, but other times it might not contain an error at all, but some kind of language or phrasing that might be unexpected.
What is denoted by sic is that the word or phrase that precedes it occurs in the original passage being quoted or name being used and was not introduced by the writer doing the quoting. In this context it means “intentionally so written.” On its own, sic means “so” or “thus” and can be found in phrases such as sic transit gloria mundi ('so passes away the glory of the world') and sic semper tyrannis ('thus ever to tyrants,' the motto of the state of Virginia). Sic usually appears in parentheses or brackets, sometimes with the letters in italics. Signals that a quote appears as originally found, without edits.
