Talk:Martha Bruce, Countess of Elgin

A fact from Martha Bruce, Countess of Elgin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that King George III placed the "deeply-deplored" Princess Charlotte of Wales under the superintendence of the pious Martha Elgin (pictured)?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/November.

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ignorant reading

"[Sic]" is rarely a good move. Better be quite sure of this little wink to the reader. In the phrase "the deeply-deplored [sic] Princess Charlotte of Wales" "deplored" is merely an equivalent of "the late lamented". The interjection of "[sic]" is irrelevant, cheeky and ignorant. It is the princess's death that is being deplored, not the Princess herself. Too bad this solecism was exposed on Wikiperdia front page (as above).--Wetman (talk) 17:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]