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Official speed | 51.40 wpm (131.21 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | April 19, 2020 7:31:30am UTC |
Race Finish | April 19, 2020 7:33:41am UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 4) |
Accuracy | 94.0% |
Points | 83.10 |
Text | #4180451 (Length: 562 characters) 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. |