I din't know q=what the hell "SIC" was about - that is now the chosen identification of most people whose origins are the road - - it needs to be spelled with a capital "T"

I'll explain what SIC was about. When you are quoting word for word from a book sometimes you find a mistake in a book. But if you just quote it it might look as if you had made the mistake not the person you are quoting. So what you do is put (SIC) after the word. It means something like 'It was written like this in the original'.

In the case of Lloyd, who I quoted accurately, he did not use the capital letter for the word 'travellers'. I know that people nowadays prefer a capital. In order to show that the lower case letter was what Lloyd put, I wrote (SIC) after it.

As somebody pointed out, the aim of my post was to support using quotation a statement I had made about Lloyd's book.

Lloyd is one of the mediators discussed in the Harker book where we originally came across the term 'mediation'. I have said several times that I don't think it would be possible to hold a sensible discussion about Harker's view of Lloyd on Mudcat and recent posts seem to me to confirm that viewpoint.