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Off topic, but interesting to me: not sure if I've ever seen an editing mistake in The New Yorker before, and I've been reading it since I was a teenager. In a quote, "Ocean Gate" should be "OceanGate" or at the very least should include a "[sic]".

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It's not a mistake if it's verbatim. The [sic] is usually to show that the mistake isn't by the publisher but adding an additional space in a company name probably isn't egregious enough to warrant it.

> It's not a mistake if it's verbatim.

Yes it is (and [sic] is specifically used for verbatim quotes[1]). Companies often take their style guides pretty seriously, so an extra space can be a big deal. But in any case, The New Yorker has extremely high AP standards, so that's why I'm surprised to see even such a slight mistake.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sic-meaning-us...

I looked it up and the AP style guide now recommends against using [sic].

Cool callout, super interesting justification[1], had no idea.

[1] https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1124320764054863873

I remember when Twitter links were useful...

Readable link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190505114631/https://twitter.c...

This is a little more off-topic but when I first encountered uses of "sic" I thought it was an acronym for "spelling is correct", due to how it was being used. Only later did I realise that wasn't the case, but a search of the Internet shows that many others also came up with the same acronym and reasoning.

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