MUMPSIMUS
noun
a view stubbornly held even when shown to be wrong or one holding such a view; adherance to or persistance in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc, out of habit or obstinancy or a person who persists in such a way; a bigoted adherant to exposed but customary error
SUMPSIMUS
noun
an adherance to or persisence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form or a person who is obstinant or zealous about such strict correctness; a strictly correct expression or usage substituted for an old popular error
PEDANTIC
adj.
too concerned with formal rules and details; narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned; unimaginative, pedestrian; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching; ostentatious in one's learning; bookish, precise
It is funny how situations teach us new things and even lead to cool new words... And how those new words lead us to even more cool words... And then eventually lead back to more familiar ones.
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