Researchers discovered that after having the lobster's larger claw, the crusher claw, clamp down on a load cell, a pressure-measuring device. This claw looks like it has molars because it's used to break up anything hard like crabs, clams, mussels.
[sic] is an abbreviation for âsic erat scriptumâ which is Latin for âthus it had been writtenâ, meaning that the quote prior was transcribed as it was found in the original source, complete with errors, coloquialisms etc. 1  Belaon March 31, 2015 1:58 am.
Insert the quote you are going to use into your writing, using quotation marks. Make note of which word is spelled incorrectly. Place the word sic after the misspelled word. If there are multiple misspelled words within one quote, place sic at the end of the phrase but within the quotation marks. Italicize the word sic, but do not italicize the rest of the quote or the misspelled word. This is the proper format when using sic..