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| Official speed | 65.89 wpm (102.35 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | October 21, 2019 4:27:35pm UTC |
| Race Finish | October 21, 2019 4:29:17pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 of 3) |
| Accuracy | 96.0% |
| Points | 106.53 |
| 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. |