Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2236 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cockecock

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 512 times in 273 works
Consistency: 99.6% (512 of 514)
Reach if approved: ~540 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cock
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 514 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (512 changes in 273 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 512)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ioy thereof to our wounded and sorrowful consciences, we esteeme of it, as Aesops CockeCock did of the Iewell, hee found in the doung-hill, wee had rather haue …
With rule
… ioy thereof to our wounded and sorrowful consciences, we esteeme of it, as Aesops CockeCock did of the Iewell, hee found in the doung-hill, wee had rather haue …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… remembred the Word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, before the cockecock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. When he considered the marvellous love of Christ …
With rule
… remembred the Word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, before the cockecock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. When he considered the marvellous love of Christ …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 735 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt be ſet vp vnto them a ſigne of ſaluation, yet they like the CockeCock on the dunghill, do ſpurne him aſide, not knowing what vertue there is layde …
With rule
… Chriſt be ſet vp vnto them a ſigne of ſaluation, yet they like the CockeCock on the dunghill, do ſpurne him aſide, not knowing what vertue there is layde …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
Chaungyng as oft as wether cockecock in wynde
With rule
Chaungyng as oft as wether cockecock in wynde
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
… no apte Iewell for the wicked worldelinges & bellied hypocrites, which lyke to E soppes cockecock set more by a barly corne, then by all the preciouse stones in the …
With rule
… no apte Iewell for the wicked worldelinges & bellied hypocrites, which lyke to E soppes cockecock set more by a barly corne, then by all the preciouse stones in the …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, coldly and remiſly, and after being admoniſhed partlie by the voyce of the CockeCock, and partlie and principallie by the looke of our Sauiour Chriſt, hee went out …
With rule
… man, coldly and remiſly, and after being admoniſhed partlie by the voyce of the CockeCock, and partlie and principallie by the looke of our Sauiour Chriſt, hee went out …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yes I warrant you, I'le peraduenture my person in a CockeCock-boate.
With rule
Yes I warrant you, I'le peraduenture my person in a CockeCock-boate.
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… Eutopia. Goe aske S^r Thomas Moore on which end of thoſe Churches the Weather-cockecock ſhall ſtand.
With rule
… Eutopia. Goe aske S^r Thomas Moore on which end of thoſe Churches the Weather-cockecock ſhall ſtand.
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.