Not necessarily. When used to indicate a mispelt word, [sic] does not make the statement technically false.
It is technically false to write that a word is mispelt [sic] and becomes true only if you write “misspelt”.
Misspelt is the British English; misspelled is the American English.
A pool or billiard ball is struck off-center by the cue, to impart “English” on it, to cause it to follow a desired trajectory after hitting the object ball.
Walter Lindrum was an Australian billiards player who held the World Professional Billiards Championship from 1933 until his retirement in 1950.
His grave in Melbourne is designed to resemble a billboards table.
Professor Harold Hill was might proud to say he was a billiard player. Pool, OTOH . . .
Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister of the UK from 1957 to 1963. He presided over a period of steadily rising standards of living and famously told the nation that it “had never had it so good”.
Macmillan was the last PM to have been born in the reign of Queen Victoria and the last to have served in WWI.
In 1984 he was created the Earl of Stockton.
**PM **means “post meridian”, which means after the sun has crossed the meridian of longitude where you are positioned, which occurs at astronomical Noon, hence, the beginning of afternoon and evening.
It’s actually post meridiem, Latin for ‘after noon’.
The word for “noon” comes from the Latin word for nine, and it was reckoned to be the ninth hour after sunrise, which is actually about 3 pm – the time of midday prayers. But around the 12th Century, the church shifted the prayers three hours earlier, and along with it, the midday meal, but the word noon stuck.
(You are correct about “meridiem”)
The 1952 western movie starring the young, 20-year old Grace Kelly alongside the much older, 50-year old Gary Cooper was High Noon and is considered one of the best westerns of all time. It was filmed in Jamestown, California in the heart of California’s gold country in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Jamestown is a small rural town in South Australia, about 200 km north of Adelaide. It was named for Sir James Fergusson, the Governor of South Australia.
One of its more famous sons was Sir Raphael Cilento, the medical pioneer and father of the actress Diane Cilento.
Adelaide was named for Queen Adelaide, the wife of King William IV.
And not George IV as Trivial Pursuit would have it in one of its incorrect answers.
Adelaide was founded in 1836. It has the lowest average annual rainfall of any of the state capitals.
It is considered in poor taste for a barbershop quartet to sing “Queen Adelaide” to the tune of “Sweet Adeline”.
In Frank Loesser’s musical “Guys and Dolls”, Nathan Detroit is smitten with showgirl Adelaide but is reluctant to commit to marriage, causing her to tell the audience her woes in “Adelaide’s Lament”. A poysen can develop a cold. Loesser created the character to fit Vivian Blaine when she was chosen for the cast, thinking her a bad fit to play Sergeant Sarah Brown, and eventually built the role to amount to a co-lead.
The Detroit Tigers last won the World Series in 1984 over the Padres. The Tigers have won a total of four World Series, also in 1968 over the Cardinals, 1945 over the Cardinals, and 1935 over the Cubs. In their last World Series appearance, in 2012, the Tigers were swept by the San Francisco Giants.
George Selkirk, in 1936, became the first Canadian-born player to hit a home run in a World Series game. There were no Canadians playing in the major leagues from 1926 through 1929, but there were 60 of them in the 1800s…
The story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish buccaneer sailor who was marooned alone for four years on the island of Juan Fernandez, near Chile, inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk had asked to be let ashore rather than sail in a vessel, the Cingue Ports, he considered to have become dangerously unseaworthy. The ship was, in fact, lost later in the voyage.
It was the Cinque Ports, not the Cingue Ports: Cinque Ports (1703 ship) - Wikipedia.
The five historic Cinque Ports are Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich. Each is in either Kent or Sussex in the United Kingdom.