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.
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76489 | 2020-06-14 07:38:33 | 96.69 | 97% |
45352 | 2019-12-17 11:45:12 | 93.60 | 96% |
41018 | 2019-11-20 19:12:00 | 89.26 | 96% |
41017 | 2019-11-20 19:10:38 | 83.09 | 96% |