mumpsimus \MUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy.
2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.
"I profess, my good lady," replied I, "that had any one but you made such a declaration, I should have thought it as capricious as that of the clergyman, who, without vindicating his false reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old Mumpsimus...
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman
Mr. Burgess, who sticks (I fancy) to his old mumpsimus, thought that the other gentleman might have given the canoe a shove to get it clear of the lock…
-- Ronald A. Knox, The Footsteps at the Lock
Mumpsimus comes from a story (perhaps first told by Erasmus) about an illiterate priest who mispronounced a word while reciting the liturgy. The priest refused to change the word, even when he was corrected.
1。堅持或堅持錯誤使用的語言，記憶，實踐，信仰等，出於習慣或固執。
2。一個人堅持在一個錯誤的表達或實踐。
“我信奉，我的好夫人，”回答我，“有任何一個，但你這樣的聲明，我應該想到牧師反复無常它，不表白他的虛假讀數，首選從習慣的緣故， ，他老人家Mumpsimus...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，護符
伯吉斯先生，誰堅持我看中他的老mumpsimus，認為其他的紳士可能獨木舟1推得到明確的鎖...
- 答：羅納德·諾克斯，在鎖定的腳步
mumpsimus來自一個不識字的牧師念錯一個字，而背誦禮儀有關的故事（也許是第一次由伊拉斯謨告訴）。牧師拒絕改變的字，甚至當他已得到糾正。
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