Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11390 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

musickmusic

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 4,946 times in 1,337 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,946 of 4,949)
Reach if approved: ~5,200 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: music
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,949 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,946 changes in 1,337 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,946)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
1 A Pſalme of DAVID, committed to be ſung, to the maiſter of MuſickMusic in Ieduthun.
With rule
1 A Pſalme of DAVID, committed to be ſung, to the maiſter of MuſickMusic in Ieduthun.
Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stirres him. A man may like him at first, as one that neuer heard musickmusic doth the Tinkers note on his kettle; but after a while, they are both …
With rule
… stirres him. A man may like him at first, as one that neuer heard musickmusic doth the Tinkers note on his kettle; but after a while, they are both …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his houſe, clothes him with the beſt robe, feaſts him, and cheares him with muſickmusic and dancing, ver. 22, 23, 24.
With rule
… his houſe, clothes him with the beſt robe, feaſts him, and cheares him with muſickmusic and dancing, ver. 22, 23, 24.
William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Monke very learned, as well in Greke as in Latin, and so skilfull in MusickMusic, that hee brought the notes of the Psalmes and Hymnes to better harmonie. He …
With rule
… Monke very learned, as well in Greke as in Latin, and so skilfull in MusickMusic, that hee brought the notes of the Psalmes and Hymnes to better harmonie. He …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
And craftie MuſickMusic, ſinging frome the ſplene,
With rule
And craftie MuſickMusic, ſinging frome the ſplene,
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
A. No, for wee may refreſh our ſelues with eating and drinking, ſinging, and muſickmusic, and with any honeſt delight whatſoeuer, whereby the minde is cheared vp, and ioy …
With rule
A. No, for wee may refreſh our ſelues with eating and drinking, ſinging, and muſickmusic, and with any honeſt delight whatſoeuer, whereby the minde is cheared vp, and ioy …
John Mayer · Catechism Abridged · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſhoes, the ring, theiewells, kill the fat calfe, make a feaſt, ſend for muſickmusic that wee may reioyce. All is fogotten. Haſt thou beene a drunkard, a blaſphemer …
With rule
… the ſhoes, the ring, theiewells, kill the fat calfe, make a feaſt, ſend for muſickmusic that wee may reioyce. All is fogotten. Haſt thou beene a drunkard, a blaſphemer …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which Canon teacheth us, First, that Stage-playes and ribaldry songs or musickmusic, are no fit pastimes for Christians to praise the Lord withall on festivall and …
With rule
Which Canon teacheth us, First, that Stage-playes and ribaldry songs or musickmusic, are no fit pastimes for Christians to praise the Lord withall on festivall and …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 589 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Westminster Annotations A36467

Printed
… the Theater then the Quire: and whosoever are more taken with the straines of musIckmusic, and sweetnesse of the voyce, then with the matter of the song, must acknowledge …
With rule
… the Theater then the Quire: and whosoever are more taken with the straines of musIckmusic, and sweetnesse of the voyce, then with the matter of the song, must acknowledge …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

Gospel Music A44281

Printed
GOSPEL MUSICKMUSIC. OR, THE SINGING OF DAVIDS PSALMS, &c.
With rule
GOSPEL MUSICKMUSIC. OR, THE SINGING OF DAVIDS PSALMS, &c.
Nathanael Homes · Gospel Music · Open in the reader

The Figures or Types of Christ A50253

Printed
THE SUPERSTITIOUS VANITY OF THE POPISH MUSICKMUSIC IN THE WORSHIP of GOD.
With rule
THE SUPERSTITIOUS VANITY OF THE POPISH MUSICKMUSIC IN THE WORSHIP of GOD.
Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 597 · Open in the reader