Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31315 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

quarrellsquarrels

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 247 times in 164 works
Consistency: 92.8% (247 of 266)
Reach if approved: ~279 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: quarrels
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 266 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (247 changes in 164 works, 92.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 247)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and other unlawfull exercises and pastimes, upon the Lords day. And for that many quarrellsquarrels, bloodsheds, and other great inconveniences have growne by the resort and concourse of people …
With rule
… and other unlawfull exercises and pastimes, upon the Lords day. And for that many quarrellsquarrels, bloodsheds, and other great inconveniences have growne by the resort and concourse of people …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 713 · Open in the reader
Printed
… breake one with another for trifles, they forget their Baptisme that are so in quarrellsquarrels. Thus if wee would thinke of it, it is such a booke as would …
With rule
… breake one with another for trifles, they forget their Baptisme that are so in quarrellsquarrels. Thus if wee would thinke of it, it is such a booke as would …
Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stomacke, suffereth neither head nor feete to doe their duties: it is full of quarrellsquarrels and desperate strokes, beating out of doores seruants, children, and her whom he should …
With rule
… stomacke, suffereth neither head nor feete to doe their duties: it is full of quarrellsquarrels and desperate strokes, beating out of doores seruants, children, and her whom he should …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fraunce, Italie, Spaine with warres: and so haue the Popes maintained their factions and quarrellsquarrels a long time by the Ciuill power.
With rule
… Fraunce, Italie, Spaine with warres: and so haue the Popes maintained their factions and quarrellsquarrels a long time by the Ciuill power.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 446 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Divines, are moſt intollerable, and good for nothing, that I knowe, but to breed quarrellsquarrels, to worke diſtractions, to increaſe doubts, to make all things vncertaine, and to bring …
With rule
… Divines, are moſt intollerable, and good for nothing, that I knowe, but to breed quarrellsquarrels, to worke diſtractions, to increaſe doubts, to make all things vncertaine, and to bring …
Cornelius Burges · Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants Professed by the Church of England · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Authoritie, and that we had sworne to defend one another in our owne private quarrellsquarrels, aswel as in the cause of Religion. This his G. desired to bee removed …
With rule
… Authoritie, and that we had sworne to defend one another in our owne private quarrellsquarrels, aswel as in the cause of Religion. This his G. desired to bee removed …
Alexander Henderson · Answers to the Replies of Aberdeen · Open in the reader
Printed
… are but labouring to hold our thoughts so bent and intent upon those smaller quarrellsquarrels, that we may forget to distinguish betwixt evills immanent and evills imminent, and that …
With rule
… are but labouring to hold our thoughts so bent and intent upon those smaller quarrellsquarrels, that we may forget to distinguish betwixt evills immanent and evills imminent, and that …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… quarrell about a matter of leſſe weight. Neither doe I ſay, that onely great quarrellsquarrels are to be ended, or prevented by a Lot, as Mr. Gataker denieth not …
With rule
… quarrell about a matter of leſſe weight. Neither doe I ſay, that onely great quarrellsquarrels are to be ended, or prevented by a Lot, as Mr. Gataker denieth not …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… eyes to see; because they were but so many Incendiaries, and Fomentors of Crueltie, QuarrellsQuarrels, Murthers, and Reuenge. Since therefore the Stile, and subiect Ma…ter of our Playes …
With rule
… eyes to see; because they were but so many Incendiaries, and Fomentors of Crueltie, QuarrellsQuarrels, Murthers, and Reuenge. Since therefore the Stile, and subiect Ma…ter of our Playes …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 73 · Open in the reader

Six Sermons A96530

Printed
… not one another there for Actions of the Caſe, or Treſpaſſe. There are no QuarrellsQuarrels, no Diſtractions through hatefull Scramblings about meum, and tuum, for the Titular Proprieties of …
With rule
… not one another there for Actions of the Caſe, or Treſpaſſe. There are no QuarrellsQuarrels, no Diſtractions through hatefull Scramblings about meum, and tuum, for the Titular Proprieties of …
Edward Willan · Six Sermons · p. 55 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

Printed
Your QuarrellsQuarrels it would ev'rie day increaſe.
With rule
Your QuarrellsQuarrels it would ev'rie day increaſe.
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 128 · Open in the reader