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#167831 04/27/07 12:56 AM
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I'm looking for a word that isn't commonly used. It is a noun that describes something that has always been a certain way, an old way of doing things that everyone does but they don't know why they do it that way anymore. Is there such a word?

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Praxis Maybe!

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Welcome clucky! Try entering "traditional" at

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/#lookup


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A. would call it 'convention'. [Did specify noun.]

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There may be a word for it, but there are many such somethings.
Even a commonly used word for it seems to be hard to find.

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A habit?

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Well,habit,routine,the daily grind... It appears to be quite hard to find the fitting word from a vague or incomplete definition.

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A paradigm? Not so uncommonly used in business settings, but it might work.


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I believe I have found the word you are looking for...

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mumpsimus noun ( pl. -muses) a traditional custom or notion adhered to although shown to be unreasonable. • a person who obstinately adheres to such a custom or notion. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: erroneously for Latin sumpsimus in quod in ore sumpsimus ‘which we have taken into the mouth’ (Eucharist), in a story of an illiterate priest who, when corrected, replied “I will not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus.”

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I love this. Either m- or s- coulda been a Hogwash word.

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