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: The Volokh Conspiracy

Syllabus

By Eugene Volokh

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(Eugene Volokh)

Prof. Mark Liberman (Language Log) points to the little-known history of the word ?syllabus.? Apparently the Greek original is ?sittybas,? from ?sittyba,? ?parchment label or title-slip on a book? ? but then an early printing of Cicero mistranscribed the word as ?syllabos.? (Go to Liberman?s post for more, including a reproduction of the OED entry.) That?s the way language works: Errors, accepted long enough, become standard.


Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).

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