mumpsimus

The term mumpsimus may also refer to the person who performs the action.

The term originates from a story about a priest who misread the Latin word sumpsimus as mumpsimus.

If a person stubbornly sticks to a mispronunciation after being corrected, that person has committed a mumpsimus.

But the epitaphs were trim and sprag, and patent, and pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of Afflictions sore.

A mumpsimus is an action by a person who adheres to a routine, idea, custom, set of beliefs, or a certain use of language that has been shown to be unreasonable or incorrect.

Mary Lou Dobbs devotes a chapter to Empowerment vs. Mumpsimus in her 2010 Repotting Yourself: Financial-Emotional-Spiritual Flow.

In his 2005 Mumpsimus Revisited: Essays on Risk Management, Felix Kloman defines the term as "adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, practice or belief, out of habit or obstinacy".

But Edward is a hotter little reformist than Elizabeth, who abides strictly by her father's middle way and saystaking Henry's words from his last speech to Parliamentthat she will be neither 'mumpsimus' nor 'sumpsimus' but worship God without argument.

Informed of his mistake, he replied that he had said mumpsimus for a number of years and was not about to change: "I've got so used to using the word mumpsimus that I'll just go on saying it that way."

In an 1883 polemic on errors in translations of the Christian Bible, John Burgon says: "If men prefer their 'mumpsimus' to our 'sumpsimus', let them by all means have it: but pray let them keep their rubbish to themselves-and at least leave our SAVIOUR's words alone."

In 1531 Sir Thomas Elyot used the word in his Boke named the Gouvernor where he said of Magnanimitie that the word, "...being yet straunge, as late borowed out of the Latyne, shall not content all men, and specially them whome nothing contenteth out of their accustomed mumpsimus".