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A contract you sign by attending, then never read again.
means A course outline listing topics, grading, deadlines, and rules students are presumed to have absorbed.
from A glorious accident: a 1470 misprint of the Greek sittybas (parchment label) birthed Latin syllabus, then everyone politely agreed to keep the typo.
Born wrongThe word itself is a printing error.
Plural snobPurists insist on syllabi; syllabuses is fine.
Legal weightCourts have treated syllabi as binding agreements.