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sic
adverb
Latin.
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: He signed his name as e. e. cummings (sic).
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People may be familiar with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis 鈥淭hus ever to tyrants.鈥� Usually, English sic appears alone, usually written in italics within square brackets, [sic], showing that the preceding misused or misspelled word is correctly cited, as, for instance, “marshal [sic] law” for “martial law.” Sic comes straight from the Latin adverb 蝉墨肠 鈥渢hus, so,鈥� which is the source of Italian 蝉矛, Spanish and Catalan 蝉铆, and French si, all meaning 鈥測es.鈥� A related Latin word, the conjunction 蝉墨 鈥渋f,鈥� is the source of Italian se, Spanish and Catalan si, and French si, all meaning 鈥渋f.鈥� Sic entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
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Would love to take a new look at you’re (sic) new book. … Is Clint Reno still you’re (sic) agent?
In her remarks, she flattered her audience as 鈥渟mart people who also happens [sic] to be rich and powerful.鈥�
sic
delegate
noun
a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.
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English delegate ultimately comes from Latin 诲脓濒脓驳腻迟耻蝉 鈥渁ppointee,鈥� a noun use of the past participle of the verb 诲脓濒脓驳腻谤别 鈥渢o appoint, assign,鈥� a compound of the prefix 诲脓- 鈥渁way (from here)鈥� and the simple verb 濒脓驳腻谤别 鈥渢o send as an envoy, depute,鈥� a derivative of the noun lex (stem 濒脓驳-) 鈥渓aw鈥� (source of legal and, via Old French, loyal). Formerly in U.S legal and constitutional usage, a delegate was the title of a representative of a state in the First Continental Congress (1774), and later the title of the representative of a Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. Delegate entered English in the 14th century.
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By the end of Super Tuesday, more than a third of all convention delegates will have been pledged nationally.
By the mid-1960s, Nixon was still regarded as a joke by the national press and the national party structure, but he found himself with more and more friends at the party’s local level, friends who would eventually be delegates to the 1968 Republican Convention.
delegate
astronaut
noun
a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.
Why NASA chose astronaut
Calling all astrophiles! Today, March 2, NASA begins accepting applications for their next class of astronauts. Do you have what it takes to become a "star sailor"? Watch this video to find out!
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Astronaut entered the orbit of English speakers in the late 1800s from the realm of science fiction. The first recorded instance comes from an 1880 novel by Percy Greg called Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, in which Astronaut is the name of the narrator’s spacecraft. The sense under discussion today, “a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight,” emerged in the 1920s, decades before the launch of Sputnik (1957) marked the beginning of the Space Age. Astronaut is a compound of astro– “pertaining to stars or celestial bodies or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth’s atmosphere,” from Greek 谩蝉迟谤辞苍 “star, constellation,” and –naut a combining form meaning “traveler,” from Greek 苍补煤迟脓蝉 “蝉补颈濒辞谤.”听
how is astronaut used?
In the latter part of the twentieth century, those fantasies [of conquering space] were replaced by actual vehicles which could venture into space and a daring new breed of hero鈥攖he astronaut.
From the very beginning this “astronaut” business was just an unbelievable good deal. It was such a good deal that it seemed like tempting fate for an astronaut to call himself an astronaut, even though that was the official job description.
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