Word: sic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...square's Bourbon Street restaurant boasts an award-winning cajun-creole menu raved about by the U.S. consular corps?but everything else in the area is for the serious boozer or bold, cultural tourist. At the square's straining heart nestles the Texas Lone Staar (sic) Saloon, a favored hangout of grizzled Vietnam vets and supposed former CIA spooks. The bar's tag line, FOOD, WIMMIN, LIKKER, is painted across its windows, though the emphasis is almost exclusively on the latter...
...Sic Transit For the first time in more than 100 years, Venus crosses in front...
...someone a “homophobe” for favoring, say, an ROTC presence on campus is an effective way of ending a debate, not engaging in one. To be sure, Skier’s pronouncement that “most objections to [the bathroom proposal] are blatant transphobia [sic],” may give her the rhetorical upper-hand by labeling potential critics as hateful, but it wins her no friends...
...most interesting discoveries was that not all kids who stereotypically should have been favoring upturned collars and purple shirts actually did. One post from a Harvard student states, “Popped collars are for poser deusches [sic], I don’t care what class you’re in. Most days I’m in a hoodie and a fucking baseball cap…Also, my son will kick your son’s ass everyday, steal his lunch money, then pay him with it to do his homework. He’ll have good lineage like...
...prefers to distinguish women from men on sociological grounds—in order to suggest, as Franklin does, that if only the cultural atmosphere were fluffier, women would do better. Julia H. Fawcett ’04 writes, “Something happens when a group of women get [sic] together: the tension of competition suddenly falls away, and we begin to relate to each other...