Soley. Is it a word or have I misspelled it and it is a word meaning specifically?

Under such circumstances, we did not think it correct for us to assume the meaning of misspelled words or the intent of the author of the letter in question. Various usage guides, such as The Chicago Manual of Style, recommend "quiet copy-editing" (unless where inappropriate or uncertain) instead of inserting a bracketed sic, such as by substituting in brackets the correct word (if known) in place of the incorrect word. Alternatively, when both the original and the suggested correction are desired to be shown (as they often are in palaeography), one may give the actual form, followed by sic in brackets, followed by the corrected form preceded by recte in brackets.

An Iraqi battalion has consumed sic recte assumed control of the former American military base, and our forces are now about 40 minutes outside the city. According to the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Style Sheet, there should be no punctuation, for example no colon, before the corrected word when using recte. 29 Sometimes only sic and the correction are in the bracket, becoming as in the last example "sic assumed" (i.e.

Recte is omitted).