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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80758 | 2020-01-30 08:26:26 | 103.28 | 98% |
79266 | 2020-01-04 07:47:06 | 94.83 | 97% |
78076 | 2019-12-01 10:39:26 | 102.40 | 98% |
74646 | 2019-09-04 04:04:06 | 107.75 | 98% |
74645 | 2019-09-04 03:12:06 | 97.79 | 97% |