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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313. | Pal (palqa) | 79.05 | 97% | 2020-07-26 |
314. | 0rz0rz (thenine) | 79.05 | 98% | 2019-12-04 |
315. | Amanda (amandafong) | 78.80 | 96% | 2020-01-18 |
316. | Noah (nowla) | 78.77 | 97% | 2019-11-07 |
317. | Pedro (pedro5370) | 78.77 | 97% | 2020-03-12 |
318. | checkie (checkie11) | 78.74 | 98% | 2020-02-14 |
319. | Craig (engscholar23) | 78.70 | 98% | 2020-04-03 |
320. | Eve (evehelin) | 78.66 | 99% | 2019-10-19 |
321. | Cisco... (slowracerx) | 78.46 | 97% | 2019-11-27 |
322. | Zanilen (zanilen) | 78.45 | 95% | 2019-10-21 |
323. | cross (crossj) | 78.42 | 98% | 2020-04-29 |
324. | XrXr (xrxr) | 78.34 | 96% | 2019-10-26 |
325. | m3r8 (m3r8) | 78.31 | 96% | 2020-09-29 |
326. | Yi-Szen (smurfii) | 78.13 | 96% | 2020-09-05 |
327. | rilee_h443 (rilee_h443) | 78.13 | 96% | 2020-04-23 |
328. | Walsur (walsur) | 78.05 | 97% | 2020-12-18 |
329. | Tim (tim28) | 77.96 | 96% | 2019-10-16 |
330. | Big (bigmike6) | 77.96 | 96% | 2020-05-14 |
331. | lambdanaut (lambdanaut) | 77.89 | 99% | 2020-11-08 |
332. | dean (deanlacap) | 77.80 | 98% | 2019-09-27 |
333. | Jakab (schttj) | 77.77 | 97% | 2020-10-21 |
334. | Simon (sxmxn) | 77.73 | 96% | 2019-12-06 |
335. | Avi (st3phan0) | 77.69 | 96% | 2019-10-07 |
336. | EuSouAFazenda (eusouafazenda) | 77.67 | 97% | 2020-02-26 |
337. | Loser (dmred49) | 77.64 | 96% | 2019-12-04 |
338. | djk (dongju142) | 77.63 | 97% | 2020-07-30 |
339. | Kevin (kevinthelegend) | 77.59 | 96% | 2020-01-17 |
340. | Dett (dettero) | 77.56 | 97% | 2020-12-13 |
341. | Saul (saulvsoto) | 77.38 | 96% | 2020-10-07 |
342. | aj (peanut2004) | 77.29 | 97% | 2020-10-10 |
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 |