View Pit Stop page for race #772 by eoing — Ghost race
Official speed | 57.71 wpm (116.86 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | December 1, 2020 7:00:38pm UTC |
Race Finish | December 1, 2020 7:02:34pm UTC |
Outcome | Win (1 of 5) |
Accuracy | 95.0% |
Points | 93.30 |
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. |