View Pit Stop page for race #63386 by swaax — Ghost race
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Official speed | 116.61 wpm (57.83 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | November 3, 2020 10:36:54pm UTC |
Race Finish | November 3, 2020 10:37:52pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 5) |
Opponents |
1. boy_314 (117.72 wpm) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 188.52 |
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. |