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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| 26854 | 2020-10-27 23:45:52 | 72.98 | 96% |
| 13046 | 2020-04-23 22:36:22 | 78.13 | 96% |
| 11517 | 2020-04-14 17:26:20 | 68.00 | 95% |
| 10334 | 2020-04-08 21:28:03 | 69.20 | 95% |