Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #30998 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pellicanpelican

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 598 times in 76 works
Consistency: 99.5% (598 of 601)
Reach if approved: ~631 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pelican
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 601 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (598 changes in 76 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 598)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Caps, Robes, Rings, Holy-dayes, Muſicks, Commencements, and Divinity-Acts are yet u…; Conradus PellicanPelican upon his deathbed deſired he might not be buried a Doctor, for he ſaid …
With rule
… Caps, Robes, Rings, Holy-dayes, Muſicks, Commencements, and Divinity-Acts are yet u…; Conradus PellicanPelican upon his deathbed deſired he might not be buried a Doctor, for he ſaid …
John Canne · The Time of the End · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paxton over againſt the Caſtle Tavern neer Doctors Commons, and John Sherley at the PellicanPelican in Little Brittain. 1661.
With rule
… Paxton over againſt the Caſtle Tavern neer Doctors Commons, and John Sherley at the PellicanPelican in Little Brittain. 1661.
John Godolphin · View of the Admiral Jurisdiction · Open in the reader
Printed
Ludovicus Lavater writes that he had often heard from PellicanPelican being old, that no Greek Testament could be found in Germany (the first copy …
With rule
Ludovicus Lavater writes that he had often heard from PellicanPelican being old, that no Greek Testament could be found in Germany (the first copy …
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trained up in order to the prophetick function. Non didici inter discipulos Prophetarum, as PellicanPelican renders it; nec institutione qua filii Prophetarum quasi ad donum Pr…phetiae à parentibus …
With rule
… trained up in order to the prophetick function. Non didici inter discipulos Prophetarum, as PellicanPelican renders it; nec institutione qua filii Prophetarum quasi ad donum Pr…phetiae à parentibus …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of the Christian Faith · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not poſſible for my Refuter to containe himſelfe from a ſcurill inuectiue againſt Luther, PellicanPelican, Bucer; and it becomes him well. His Fathers, like Sepulchrall dogges, tore vp the …
With rule
… not poſſible for my Refuter to containe himſelfe from a ſcurill inuectiue againſt Luther, PellicanPelican, Bucer; and it becomes him well. His Fathers, like Sepulchrall dogges, tore vp the …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 727 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of our forefathers: to wit, Wickliffe, Hus, Hierome of Prage, Luther, Bucer, Oecolampadius, Swinglius, PellicanPelican, Haller, and very many other) had the ſelfe ſame laying on of hands that …
With rule
… of our forefathers: to wit, Wickliffe, Hus, Hierome of Prage, Luther, Bucer, Oecolampadius, Swinglius, PellicanPelican, Haller, and very many other) had the ſelfe ſame laying on of hands that …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… Monarchie of the Romanes the Church of Christ was propagated ouer all the world, PellicanPelican: So also Bullinger, Ecclesiam per omnes istus Monarchias in mundo futuram, that the Church …
With rule
… Monarchie of the Romanes the Church of Christ was propagated ouer all the world, PellicanPelican: So also Bullinger, Ecclesiam per omnes istus Monarchias in mundo futuram, that the Church …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
LIke as the PellicanPelican, which hauing brought foorth her young ones dead, or beeing ſtung or killed by …
With rule
LIke as the PellicanPelican, which hauing brought foorth her young ones dead, or beeing ſtung or killed by …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 171 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.