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.
| Game | Time | WPM | Accuracy |
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| 9289 | 2020-04-09 14:59:25 | 73.72 | 97% |
| 6972 | 2020-03-22 05:02:36 | 67.69 | 95% |
| 6405 | 2020-03-17 16:22:12 | 66.79 | 95% |