Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31319 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gettget

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 231 times in 92 works
Consistency: 98.3% (231 of 235)
Reach if approved: ~247 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: get
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 235 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (231 changes in 92 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 231)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… their cloſe kept coyne? Or what honour or honeſtie doeth their monie procure or gettget them while they liue amonge men? Whie doe not the wiſer ſorte of wealthie …
With rule
… their cloſe kept coyne? Or what honour or honeſtie doeth their monie procure or gettget them while they liue amonge men? Whie doe not the wiſer ſorte of wealthie …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he only vvith part of that vvhich he had, or might haue hoped to gettget, superfluous in comparison of that, vvhich others haue lost. To conclude all, I suppose …
With rule
… he only vvith part of that vvhich he had, or might haue hoped to gettget, superfluous in comparison of that, vvhich others haue lost. To conclude all, I suppose …
William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · Open in the reader
Printed
6. To teach mee to gettget my ſubſtance with a good conſcience, that ſo I may ſée they come from …
With rule
6. To teach mee to gettget my ſubſtance with a good conſcience, that ſo I may ſée they come from …
Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and weakest man can get the victorie whan god helpeth hym: But I wil gettget the victorie with my owne strength: without the helpe of god, I am able …
With rule
… and weakest man can get the victorie whan god helpeth hym: But I wil gettget the victorie with my owne strength: without the helpe of god, I am able …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… lyke that he went about to some of the maydens of the house to gettget water, and to do such other busines. But this is not written, that any …
With rule
… lyke that he went about to some of the maydens of the house to gettget water, and to do such other busines. But this is not written, that any …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… all those Ministers and people they have most unjustly excommunicated. An Executione judicij; To gettget some judgements in Starre-chamber and other his Majesties temporall Courts executed against them …
With rule
… all those Ministers and people they have most unjustly excommunicated. An Executione judicij; To gettget some judgements in Starre-chamber and other his Majesties temporall Courts executed against them …
William Prynne · Sixteen New Queries · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is wanting? You will say the future duration; but what, I pray, doe we gettget by that, when as fast as duration future becomes present, so fast duration present …
With rule
… is wanting? You will say the future duration; but what, I pray, doe we gettget by that, when as fast as duration future becomes present, so fast duration present …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obtaine nothing off gyfte but onely off loane / and other ſome that they coulde gettget nought at all. So that nowe it ſemed requiſite off neceſſytie to ſeeke ſome …
With rule
… obtaine nothing off gyfte but onely off loane / and other ſome that they coulde gettget nought at all. So that nowe it ſemed requiſite off neceſſytie to ſeeke ſome …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. LXXXIII · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier A05548

Printed
¶GettGet vpe thow slepist all to lang, O Lorde
With rule
¶GettGet vpe thow slepist all to lang, O Lorde
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

Printed
… Maister, pitie thy selfe, this shall not bee vnto thee, our Sauiour answered him, GettGet thee behind me, Satan, thou art an offense vnto me, because thou savourest not …
With rule
… Maister, pitie thy selfe, this shall not bee vnto thee, our Sauiour answered him, GettGet thee behind me, Satan, thou art an offense vnto me, because thou savourest not …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 82 · Open in the reader

Instructions About Right Believing A75538

Printed
Secondly, This ſerves alſo for Exhortation, To You that have Beleeved: GettGet more Faith, and exerciſe Faith more, So ſhall your Wants be ſupplyed, and Deſires …
With rule
Secondly, This ſerves alſo for Exhortation, To You that have Beleeved: GettGet more Faith, and exerciſe Faith more, So ſhall your Wants be ſupplyed, and Deſires …
Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 74 · Open in the reader