Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2407 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wheelewheel

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

Puritas changed it: 1,060 times in 492 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,060 of 1,061)
Reach if approved: ~1,115 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wheel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,061 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,060 changes in 492 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,060)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wheelewheel, euen vnto contrary motions. When before the rage of the ſtreame turned the wheelewheel to vtter the freedome of the Church, then it muſt bee in ſuch perfection …
With rule
… wheelewheel, euen vnto contrary motions. When before the rage of the ſtreame turned the wheelewheel to vtter the freedome of the Church, then it muſt bee in ſuch perfection …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may see that when a naile is knocked fast in a wheelewheel, turne the wheelewheel neuer so many times about, the naile will be stil where it was: Even …
With rule
… may see that when a naile is knocked fast in a wheelewheel, turne the wheelewheel neuer so many times about, the naile will be stil where it was: Even …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… againe, though it bee in a thouſand pieces: a Clockmaker can take aſunder euery wheelewheel of a watch, and ioyne it together again: and ſhal not God be able …
With rule
… againe, though it bee in a thouſand pieces: a Clockmaker can take aſunder euery wheelewheel of a watch, and ioyne it together again: and ſhal not God be able …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… intemperately followed, is preſently altered from happie to miſerable. He that roſe vpon the wheelewheel of honour, when it turneth, it turneth him out of his heauen of peace …
With rule
… intemperately followed, is preſently altered from happie to miſerable. He that roſe vpon the wheelewheel of honour, when it turneth, it turneth him out of his heauen of peace …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conuerted vnto God, the whole man will bee conuerted alſo, but as the great wheelewheel in a deuice being turned, the leſſer are together turned with it: ſo it …
With rule
… conuerted vnto God, the whole man will bee conuerted alſo, but as the great wheelewheel in a deuice being turned, the leſſer are together turned with it: ſo it …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
William Adherall Minister, and Iohn Clement-WheeleWheel-wright▪
With rule
William Adherall Minister, and Iohn Clement-WheeleWheel-wright▪
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to her right toe, who sate vpon the water, and turned round like a wheelewheel, as in a whirlepoole, yet they had her tyed in a rope, lest shee …
With rule
… to her right toe, who sate vpon the water, and turned round like a wheelewheel, as in a whirlepoole, yet they had her tyed in a rope, lest shee …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about in their circular courses; and who knowes whither the next spoake of their wheelewheel will not be a blanke? Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull, and the …
With rule
… about in their circular courses; and who knowes whither the next spoake of their wheelewheel will not be a blanke? Euen in laughter the heart is sorrowfull, and the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 251 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

The Kings Chronicle A96897

Printed
… if they be privy SLANDERERS, David will CƲT THEM OFF; He would turne the WHEELEWHEEL over the wicked: Heare him what he ſaies, for never any King did ſpeak …
With rule
… if they be privy SLANDERERS, David will CƲT THEM OFF; He would turne the WHEELEWHEEL over the wicked: Heare him what he ſaies, for never any King did ſpeak …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle · p. 28 · Open in the reader