Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31324 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

collonelcolonel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 228 times in 84 works
Consistency: 99.1% (228 of 230)
Reach if approved: ~242 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: colonel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (228 changes in 84 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 228)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… from the Court is ſpoke of in the former Chapter, when Saul made him CollonelColonel over a Regiment, leſt his Courtiers ſhould be too much Enamoured with him; how …
With rule
… from the Court is ſpoke of in the former Chapter, when Saul made him CollonelColonel over a Regiment, leſt his Courtiers ſhould be too much Enamoured with him; how …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
At the Funeral of that faithful Servant in Christ, Master John Bellamy, late CollonelColonel of a Regiment of Foot, belonging to the famous City of London. With a …
With rule
At the Funeral of that faithful Servant in Christ, Master John Bellamy, late CollonelColonel of a Regiment of Foot, belonging to the famous City of London. With a …
Richard Resbury · Pauls Soul Planting for a Better Life · Open in the reader
Printed
Give us leave, and we will walk to the place; being there come, the CollonelColonel prepared first to mount that Tragical Stage, the heads of his Speech you have …
With rule
Give us leave, and we will walk to the place; being there come, the CollonelColonel prepared first to mount that Tragical Stage, the heads of his Speech you have …
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 478 · Open in the reader
Printed
To the Honourable Sir Arthur Heſilrig, Knight, and Baronet. Sir Henry Mildmay, Knight, and CollonelColonel George Thompſon,Eſq
With rule
To the Honourable Sir Arthur Heſilrig, Knight, and Baronet. Sir Henry Mildmay, Knight, and CollonelColonel George Thompſon,Eſq
Samuel Clarke · Golden Apples · Open in the reader
Printed
AS to the Concern you commit to me about CollonelColonel Bowen, accept of this Account.
With rule
AS to the Concern you commit to me about CollonelColonel Bowen, accept of this Account.
Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet in the end the Athenians were forced to quit the place: whereupon a CollonelColonel of Horsemen of the Elians, who stood as a reserve to guard the Rere …
With rule
… yet in the end the Athenians were forced to quit the place: whereupon a CollonelColonel of Horsemen of the Elians, who stood as a reserve to guard the Rere …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Hannibal · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Army, he drew back, and the rather having intelligence that the Prince had commanded CollonelColonel Charles Gerrard out of Wales, and the reliques of his own Army to break …
With rule
… Army, he drew back, and the rather having intelligence that the Prince had commanded CollonelColonel Charles Gerrard out of Wales, and the reliques of his own Army to break …
John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
For his crying Victoria, telling me our Divines ſit ſilent under the Anſwers the CollonelColonel, and his Party have given them. If this Epiſtoler, read Mr. Baxter's Second Defence …
With rule
For his crying Victoria, telling me our Divines ſit ſilent under the Anſwers the CollonelColonel, and his Party have given them. If this Epiſtoler, read Mr. Baxter's Second Defence …
Giles Firmin · The Plea of the Children of Believing Parents · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Letters of State A50909

Printed
COllonelColonel William Jepſon, a Perſon of great Honour, and a Senator in our Parlament, is …
With rule
COllonelColonel William Jepſon, a Perſon of great Honour, and a Senator in our Parlament, is …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
COllonelColonel William Jepſon, a Perſon truly Noble in his Countrey, and a Senator in our …
With rule
COllonelColonel William Jepſon, a Perſon truly Noble in his Countrey, and a Senator in our …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 264 · Open in the reader