Sic vs Sie - What's the difference?
sic | sie |
thus; thus written
To mark with a bracketed sic."sic, adv. (and n.)" Oxford English Dictionary , Second Edition 1989. Oxford University Press.
To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
To set upon; to chase; to attack.
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{quote-book
, year = 2010
, date = September 16
, title = Amaranth and Ash
, author = Jessica Freely
, publisher = Lightning Source
, location = La Vergne
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 101
, passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = May 19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, author = Ken Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = August 16
, title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
, author = Petra Kuppers
, publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780230298279
, id =
, lccn = 2011012058
, page = 18
, passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
}}
In transitive terms the difference between sic and sie
is that sic is to set upon; to chase; to attack while sie is to sift.As verbs the difference between sic and sie
is that sic is to mark with a bracketed sic while sie is to sink; fall; drop.As an adverb sic
is thus; thus written.As a noun sie is
a drop.As a pronoun sie is
Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular theysic
English
(wikipedia sic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adverb
(-)Usage notes
The word sic may be used in brackets to show that an uncommon or archaic]] usage is reported faithfully: for instance, quoting the [[:w:United States Constitution, U.S. Constitution: : The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic ] their Speaker ... It may also be used to highlight a perceived error, sometimes for the purpose of ridicule, as in this example from : : Warehouse has been around for 30 years and has 263 stores, suggesting a large fan base. The chain sums up its appeal thus: "styley [sic], confident, sexy, glamorous, edgy, clean and individual, with it's [sic] finger on the fashion pulse."'>citation Since it is not an abbreviation, it does not require a following period.See also
* shurely shome mishtake (A jocular alternative to sic.)Verb
(sicc)- E. Belfort Bax wrote "... the modern reviewer's taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates."''E. Belfort Bax. ''
On Some Forms of Modern Cant
. Commonweal: 7 May 1887. Marxists’ Internet Archive: 14 Jan. 2006
Etymology 2
Variant of (seek).Alternative forms
* sickVerb
(sicc)- He sicced his dog on me!
- Sic 'em, Mitzi.
Usage notes
* The sense of "set upon" is most commonly used as an imperative, in a command to an animal.References
Anagrams
* * * * ----sie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
