Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Do you need to use "sic" for every error, or just the first occurrence?

I am typing into a computer a Civil War diary. The (unknown) author's spelling errors are actually quite consistent.



Example: "Troutman told Doug and me to ride ahead and riddjup an area to make camp." Troutman was probably from Pennsylvania and meant "read-up" the camp. The author spells this as riddjup about 40 times in a 250 page diary.



Is it necessary in a transcription to use "sic." at every error, or is it sufficient to use it only at the first occurrence.

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