mumpsimus
MUMP-sih-muhs, noun
A person who clings to an error even after correction.
“The style-guide mumpsimus still writes ‘alot,’ defiantly.”
Where mumpsimus comes from
From a priest who said the word wrong for decades and refused to be corrected.
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