Monthly Archives: November 2008

The word tra­di­tion comes from the Latin tra­di­tionem, acc. of tra­di­tio which means “a giv­ing up, deliv­er­ing up, sur­ren­der­ing“[1], and is used in a num­ber of ways in the Eng­lish lan­guage: Beliefs or cus­toms taught by one gen­er­a­tion to the next, often orally. For exam­ple, we can speak of the tra­di­tion of send­ing birth announce­ments. … Con­tinue read­ing »