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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107. | (g1_petroleum) | 100.14 | 98% | 2020-11-15 |
108. | Andrew (honeyman) | 99.92 | 97% | 2019-11-10 |
109. | twitch.tv/kingjeffwx (kingj... | 99.89 | 97% | 2020-10-27 |
110. | kamii (kamado) | 99.73 | 96% | 2020-09-10 |
111. | quite fast (edonn) | 99.69 | 98% | 2020-12-01 |
112. | Waruno (waruno) | 99.26 | 97% | 2019-10-13 |
113. | Rachel (rmsitar) | 99.25 | 98% | 2020-07-29 |
114. | Ditto (dittochang) | 99.18 | 99% | 2019-09-11 |
115. | anurag (sabanurag) | 98.88 | 98% | 2020-06-18 |
116. | Rob (rstefanic) | 98.85 | 98% | 2020-09-18 |
117. | Patrick (pwatrous) | 98.49 | 99% | 2019-12-23 |
118. | Lőrinc (mbalazs) | 98.45 | 98% | 2019-12-04 |
119. | Morticia (morticia94) | 98.34 | 97% | 2020-01-04 |
120. | Valzor (valzor) | 98.33 | 97% | 2020-12-09 |
121. | Chloe (skywayavenue) | 97.84 | 98% | 2020-09-24 |
122. | tstats[tshafer3] (tshafer3) | 97.72 | 98% | 2020-02-25 |
123. | rhbts (rhbts3939) | 97.61 | 97% | 2020-11-11 |
124. | no (jonah1357) | 97.54 | 97% | 2020-12-07 |
125. | Roy (monkeyape) | 97.08 | 97% | 2020-11-28 |
126. | Jesse (jessekaisermusic) | 97.05 | 97% | 2020-05-23 |
127. | meh (isuckbutimtrying) | 96.87 | 97% | 2020-11-03 |
128. | paperboy ditty (wordracer888) | 96.79 | 97% | 2020-08-12 |
129. | (timjeffery44) | 96.69 | 97% | 2020-06-14 |
130. | phlofy (phlofy) | 96.56 | 97% | 2020-05-13 |
131. | batbold (bb__) | 96.52 | 98% | 2020-02-06 |
132. | Kenny (10chos) | 96.30 | 99% | 2020-08-22 |
133. | Edvinas (bull3tf) | 96.15 | 98% | 2020-08-27 |
134. | TLotus (tlotus) | 96.12 | 98% | 2020-10-24 |
135. | napkin (call_me_napkin) | 95.92 | 96% | 2020-08-15 |
136. | Type (jycide) | 95.91 | 98% | 2020-07-31 |
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 |