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.
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11178 | 2020-10-30 15:01:01 | 112.56 | 99% |
8333 | 2020-09-09 11:58:17 | 96.69 | 98% |
265 | 2020-04-01 14:45:09 | 86.17 | 97% |