View Pit Stop page for race #1200 by avillarreal14 — Ghost race
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Official speed | 67.62 wpm (99.73 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | November 6, 2019 6:45:21pm UTC |
Race Finish | November 6, 2019 6:47:01pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (3 of 4) |
Opponents |
1. qtqtq (69.48 wpm) 2. naruth_nova (69.11 wpm) |
Accuracy | 96.0% |
Points | 109.32 |
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. |