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.
—from Garner's Modern English Usage, a book by Bryan Garner
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Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
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604. | Maffew (wettham) | 65.32 | 96% | 2019-10-16 |
605. | Hao (codh) | 65.29 | 97% | 2019-11-14 |
606. | Stanislav (stanmkh) | 65.27 | 97% | 2020-01-29 |
607. | Fabrizio (fab_) | 65.23 | 95% | 2020-10-10 |
608. | Gen (genthethief) | 65.16 | 95% | 2020-08-23 |
609. | Ev (complexion) | 65.14 | 98% | 2020-12-02 |
610. | dysprosium (dyspr0sium) | 65.14 | 95% | 2019-11-19 |
611. | Kushal (kushaltrivedi5) | 65.08 | 93% | 2020-01-14 |
612. | Kyu (kyuche) | 65.05 | 96% | 2019-10-16 |
613. | Humble (sanguisdraco) | 65.05 | 98% | 2019-09-02 |
614. | Maciej (thasobot) | 64.98 | 98% | 2019-11-13 |
615. | T (talbi) | 64.93 | 94% | 2019-12-04 |
616. | Lennard (leoracing) | 64.91 | 96% | 2019-09-22 |
617. | Nikhil (nikhilaii93) | 64.89 | 96% | 2020-08-17 |
618. | Aman (aman416) | 64.87 | 96% | 2019-10-18 |
619. | cope (xucolite) | 64.87 | 94% | 2020-01-04 |
620. | Lone (lonefr) | 64.83 | 95% | 2020-06-25 |
621. | Mark (mark666) | 64.80 | 96% | 2020-10-22 |
622. | Vams (vams413) | 64.78 | 97% | 2019-12-29 |
623. | Inderpreet (indergnps) | 64.78 | 97% | 2019-09-23 |
624. | flybot (flybot) | 64.74 | 96% | 2019-09-24 |
625. | Cat (theveryboredcat) | 64.71 | 97% | 2020-11-24 |
626. | Muhammad (wabi_sabi) | 64.69 | 96% | 2020-08-23 |
627. | Jayden (grapes_2005) | 64.60 | 98% | 2020-10-07 |
628. | mv0 (the_oko) | 64.50 | 96% | 2020-04-05 |
629. | Stas (tracersm) | 64.49 | 98% | 2019-09-27 |
630. | Pasindu (alphawolf962) | 64.42 | 96% | 2020-07-06 |
631. | w (wisatong) | 64.41 | 96% | 2020-04-06 |
632. | Shifu (shifuda) | 64.37 | 99% | 2020-04-10 |
633. | Mechanical (kheeze) | 64.27 | 97% | 2020-09-07 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 1,218 | 77.00 | September 2, 2019 |
ᗜ Stenography | 1 | 55.97 | May 27, 2023 |