Wednesday, 25 November 2015

quotation - Quoting a typo: Do I really have to do "sic", or can I just fix the sentence?



I've got an upcoming work in which I quote a couple sentences from a scholar's book. There's an unambiguous typo in it; the author just switched a few words around.


Do I really have to quote him verbatim, adding "sic" to point out the error? Or can I just "quote" him, with the typo fixed?




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