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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587. | Ltotheo (ltotheo) | 66.20 | 95% | 2020-10-05 |
588. | blank99 (insaneplayer99) | 66.08 | 95% | 2020-12-06 |
589. | Nick (animelover42) | 66.02 | 96% | 2019-12-05 |
590. | Nikola (shporet) | 66.00 | 97% | 2019-09-29 |
591. | flaskur (flaskur) | 65.98 | 96% | 2020-08-02 |
592. | Owlfire (owlfire) | 65.89 | 96% | 2019-10-21 |
593. | Weed (weeddinosaur) | 65.87 | 96% | 2020-04-01 |
594. | Jason (jasonbetterthanyouall) | 65.82 | 97% | 2020-04-17 |
595. | k (mc0sta) | 65.81 | 97% | 2020-02-27 |
596. | Ian (coocooman3) | 65.68 | 96% | 2020-04-08 |
597. | Krisztian (ltplissken) | 65.63 | 97% | 2019-09-13 |
598. | Kai (gigadelic) | 65.60 | 96% | 2020-09-14 |
599. | Pradeep (pradeep7) | 65.54 | 98% | 2019-11-10 |
600. | Kevin (chqu7424) | 65.49 | 95% | 2020-09-28 |
601. | ตาแดง (pitagorus) | 65.45 | 98% | 2020-06-28 |
602. | Speedies19 (speedies19) | 65.43 | 94% | 2020-03-23 |
603. | Camel (bandar314@yahoo.com) | 65.38 | 96% | 2020-01-13 |
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 |
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 |