Take, for example, bridegroom, or groom. In Middle English (ca. 1200-1500), the original term was goom (= man). The extra -r- was added centuries ago by false association with someone who works in a stable to care for horses. America's greatest lexicographer, Noah Webster, fought in vain in the early 19th century to make a man on his wedding day the bridegoom and all his attendants the goomsmen. But the English-speaking people would have none of it - they wanted their extra -r-, and they got it. The harmless mutation survived, and today we're wedded to it.
Game | Time | WPM | Accuracy |
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66308 | 2020-01-29 00:29:27 | 70.27 | 96% |
63548 | 2019-11-23 17:15:38 | 80.11 | 97% |
63268 | 2019-11-13 10:45:02 | 80.14 | 95% |
60335 | 2019-09-12 00:19:10 | 77.63 | 96% |