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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781. | Eoin (eoing) | 57.71 | 95% | 2020-12-01 |
782. | Vaibhav (vibhix) | 57.67 | 96% | 2019-12-31 |
783. | sean (tak32) | 57.64 | 95% | 2020-06-29 |
784. | anime (amweeb) | 57.54 | 97% | 2020-02-18 |
785. | Nedim (aekotenebri) | 57.52 | 94% | 2019-12-06 |
786. | Ngoc (maxq42) | 57.50 | 95% | 2020-07-15 |
787. | sonny (sonnysixteen) | 57.50 | 98% | 2019-09-15 |
788. | M (mostafam) | 57.38 | 97% | 2020-09-26 |
789. | joseph (cranetao) | 57.37 | 92% | 2019-10-06 |
790. | Alan (bl4n) | 57.33 | 96% | 2020-07-24 |
791. | Jeff (stemer) | 57.28 | 95% | 2020-01-02 |
792. | Thomas (thomas70) | 57.25 | 98% | 2020-04-04 |
793. | Typing🤯🤯🤯 (sirsoup) | 57.20 | 95% | 2020-09-24 |
794. | Karan (iamkaran2) | 57.07 | 96% | 2020-05-29 |
795. | 6_speed (6_speed) | 57.01 | 95% | 2019-09-23 |
796. | Maxim (kosoyman) | 56.96 | 95% | 2020-04-19 |
797. | Aneesh (aneeshkher) | 56.93 | 97% | 2019-11-20 |
798. | Diego (megax454) | 56.93 | 97% | 2020-05-19 |
799. | T (justpie) | 56.67 | 96% | 2020-06-11 |
800. | oscar (oscarhinxdd) | 56.64 | 99% | 2020-07-01 |
801. | William (wmechnig) | 56.60 | 96% | 2019-11-04 |
802. | ICKOStreet (ickostreet) | 56.59 | 93% | 2020-02-01 |
803. | infolepsy (acceleradiance) | 56.56 | 94% | 2019-11-28 |
804. | Thelonious (thelonious) | 56.55 | 96% | 2020-11-29 |
805. | UwU (strizx) | 56.54 | 94% | 2019-10-02 |
806. | David (davidhighlands) | 56.54 | 98% | 2020-09-09 |
807. | David (azoreofinom) | 56.50 | 94% | 2019-12-03 |
808. | stornev (stornev_) | 56.47 | 97% | 2020-10-15 |
809. | kb noob (akh7) | 56.37 | 96% | 2020-02-20 |
810. | Billy (billynoodles) | 56.34 | 96% | 2019-09-11 |
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 |