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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12368 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vinegervinegar

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

Puritas changed it
639 times in 320 works
Consistency
100% (639 of 639)
Reach if approved
~671 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: vinegar
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
639 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (639 changes in 320 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 639)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the worldly, thē that potion, which the world gaue to Christ on the Crosse, vinegervinegar and gall mixed together. Flint from flint may be sooner pulled asunder, & the hardest …
    With rule
    … the worldly, thē that potion, which the world gaue to Christ on the Crosse, vinegervinegar and gall mixed together. Flint from flint may be sooner pulled asunder, & the hardest …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thée, and for the profeſſion of thy Name? Diddeſt thou on the Croſſe taſte VinegerVinegar and Gall for me; and ſhall I liue in pleaſure and delicacies, faring deliciouſly …
    With rule
    … thée, and for the profeſſion of thy Name? Diddeſt thou on the Croſſe taſte VinegerVinegar and Gall for me; and ſhall I liue in pleaſure and delicacies, faring deliciouſly …

    Robert Jenison · The Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … with many stormes, thorow the intollerable wickednes of vngodly mē: although they geue vs vinegervinegar mixed with gall to drinke, bysides other dayly misfortunes, as sickenes, pestilence, dearth, & warre …
    With rule
    … with many stormes, thorow the intollerable wickednes of vngodly mē: although they geue vs vinegervinegar mixed with gall to drinke, bysides other dayly misfortunes, as sickenes, pestilence, dearth, & warre …

    Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    As vinegervinegar maketh the teeth to ake, or as ſmoke cauſeth the eyes to ſmart: ſo …
    With rule
    As vinegervinegar maketh the teeth to ake, or as ſmoke cauſeth the eyes to ſmart: ſo …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … they feast with Christ; but soone after they giue him gall to eate, and vinegervinegar to drinke, by their dayly sinnes.
    With rule
    … they feast with Christ; but soone after they giue him gall to eate, and vinegervinegar to drinke, by their dayly sinnes.

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … offended in gluttony and drunkennesse, therefore thou sufferedst in thy taste by gall and vinegervinegar. Because our feet were swift to shed bloud, thy feet were nailed to the …
    With rule
    … offended in gluttony and drunkennesse, therefore thou sufferedst in thy taste by gall and vinegervinegar. Because our feet were swift to shed bloud, thy feet were nailed to the …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 300 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Also the precious stone called Astroites, moueth of it self in vinegervinegar, the sharpenes of the vinegervinegar, percing it, and the ayer excluded, driuing it forward …
    With rule
    Also the precious stone called Astroites, moueth of it self in vinegervinegar, the sharpenes of the vinegervinegar, percing it, and the ayer excluded, driuing it forward …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … God of pitty and compaſſion. To them therfore, againſt ſuch as in thirſt gave vinegervinegar to drinke, he thus cryeth, Powre out thine indignation upon them, and let thy …
    With rule
    … God of pitty and compaſſion. To them therfore, againſt ſuch as in thirſt gave vinegervinegar to drinke, he thus cryeth, Powre out thine indignation upon them, and let thy …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 76 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.