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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861. | George (giorgos1) | 53.75 | 93% | 2020-03-20 |
862. | Jem (jampr) | 53.67 | 95% | 2020-07-02 |
863. | crai (crai27) | 53.66 | 97% | 2020-12-10 |
864. | Led (ledstjames) | 53.63 | 98% | 2020-05-21 |
865. | Jed (erictheodore) | 53.62 | 96% | 2019-11-17 |
866. | Aaron (aaronlandau) | 53.61 | 96% | 2020-01-21 |
867. | Erfan (erfan_feili) | 53.59 | 95% | 2020-09-30 |
868. | thespaghetti27 (thespaghett... | 53.58 | 95% | 2020-11-10 |
869. | vbop (vbop) | 53.48 | 94% | 2020-02-13 |
870. | Jonas (david_konka) | 53.48 | 96% | 2020-03-06 |
871. | Tinh (tinhnguyen) | 53.47 | 97% | 2019-09-29 |
872. | æ (ac343) | 53.46 | 97% | 2020-10-07 |
873. | sab (sabpap) | 53.41 | 97% | 2020-03-09 |
874. | Jose (jgeer) | 53.32 | 97% | 2020-01-10 |
875. | DataCrusader (faruzzy) | 53.27 | 94% | 2019-11-25 |
876. | Nexi (just_nexi) | 53.13 | 94% | 2020-08-23 |
877. | (mymymy141) | 53.06 | 97% | 2020-07-16 |
878. | Anton (alejendaryguy) | 52.97 | 96% | 2020-08-26 |
879. | Roman (roman_kovalchuk) | 52.95 | 96% | 2019-11-27 |
880. | elio! (gabspyz) | 52.91 | 95% | 2020-04-09 |
881. | Danny (h4ndeye) | 52.64 | 96% | 2020-12-06 |
882. | rajnish (rajnishkumar31) | 52.63 | 96% | 2020-08-21 |
883. | Ash (axelpsycho) | 52.58 | 96% | 2019-12-23 |
884. | Bine (binee) | 52.43 | 96% | 2020-11-24 |
885. | Radzik (r_dzik) | 52.43 | 97% | 2020-05-22 |
886. | Jessica (jessdn) | 52.35 | 94% | 2020-11-26 |
887. | Sugeeth (sugeeth14) | 52.34 | 96% | 2020-04-09 |
888. | Colin (czrobertson) | 52.20 | 95% | 2020-12-12 |
889. | Tuan (fifi199230) | 52.04 | 97% | 2020-04-27 |
890. | Pink Mutt (frugalmussel) | 52.00 | 95% | 2020-03-22 |
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 |