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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532. | Gegug (gegug) | 68.63 | 96% | 2020-07-21 |
533. | Rancro (rancro) | 68.62 | 96% | 2020-07-05 |
534. | Edvard (maosk) | 68.57 | 97% | 2020-02-28 |
535. | Penguin (algebromaths) | 68.56 | 95% | 2020-05-12 |
536. | Anmol (anmolsaraswat) | 68.53 | 95% | 2020-01-14 |
537. | qiTsuk (qitsuk) | 68.52 | 96% | 2020-09-29 |
538. | Momo (ttreats) | 68.51 | 96% | 2020-12-01 |
539. | + (hollin) | 68.43 | 97% | 2020-08-16 |
540. | T (omega5002) | 68.43 | 94% | 2020-03-11 |
541. | Dillon (kuraigod) | 68.42 | 94% | 2020-04-10 |
542. | Jan (kenaj) | 68.38 | 93% | 2020-03-22 |
543. | iotiiivf (3v98hac8) | 68.35 | 96% | 2019-10-16 |
544. | A (fdsjaklfdsaj) | 68.34 | 95% | 2020-06-02 |
545. | Graham (grayham11) | 68.32 | 96% | 2020-04-09 |
546. | Hello_Kitty (hello_kitten) | 68.24 | 98% | 2020-02-20 |
547. | Neil (xdestroyer2x) | 68.18 | 97% | 2020-03-30 |
548. | G (gee206) | 68.17 | 97% | 2019-09-11 |
549. | Edward (1934__) | 68.01 | 97% | 2020-05-06 |
550. | Pedroctbus (pedroctbus) | 68.01 | 96% | 2020-12-05 |
551. | Jeffrey (jeffrey7212) | 67.87 | 96% | 2019-09-09 |
552. | Kevin (kjax) | 67.80 | 97% | 2019-10-15 |
553. | じょりちっち (jorichi... | 67.80 | 98% | 2019-10-27 |
554. | Riley (rileydmcdonald) | 67.74 | 96% | 2020-03-20 |
555. | Dark (darkacer) | 67.67 | 97% | 2019-11-27 |
556. | Andres (avillarreal14) | 67.62 | 96% | 2019-11-06 |
557. | Angelic (angelic_devil) | 67.56 | 95% | 2019-09-20 |
558. | Delirious (deliriousbadger) | 67.38 | 96% | 2020-10-27 |
559. | tommy (tommyfall) | 67.36 | 97% | 2020-09-09 |
560. | bondservant (arenza) | 67.36 | 96% | 2020-07-16 |
561. | Hex (galaxyyyy) | 67.35 | 94% | 2019-11-27 |
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 |