Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31600 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diggdig

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 99 works
Consistency: 89.7% (149 of 166)
Reach if approved: ~175 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dig
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 167 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 99 works, 89.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… our reward come? what ſoules are they which thus call and hope? They muſt diggdig here another mine if they entend to eſcape.
With rule
… our reward come? what ſoules are they which thus call and hope? They muſt diggdig here another mine if they entend to eſcape.
John Calvin · The Immortality of the Soul · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Congo, wherein is no fresh water (being a very sandy ground) but if you diggdig but the depth of two or three hand-breadthes, you shall find sweet water …
With rule
… Congo, wherein is no fresh water (being a very sandy ground) but if you diggdig but the depth of two or three hand-breadthes, you shall find sweet water …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 567 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lopp off the branches, it lives; cut downe the body, it will not die: diggdig up the rootes, and it will ſtill revive, and will never leave growing untill …
With rule
… lopp off the branches, it lives; cut downe the body, it will not die: diggdig up the rootes, and it will ſtill revive, and will never leave growing untill …
William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 401 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all their own they can come by; For, they mark for themſelves, and then diggdig thorow.
With rule
… all their own they can come by; For, they mark for themſelves, and then diggdig thorow.
George Hutcheson · Exposition of Job · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that which is not Bread, and their Labour for that which ſatisfieth not, nor diggdig up to themſelves broken Cisterns, that can hold no Water, nor weary themſelves as …
With rule
… that which is not Bread, and their Labour for that which ſatisfieth not, nor diggdig up to themſelves broken Cisterns, that can hold no Water, nor weary themſelves as …
Alexander Nisbet · Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bowels of the earth, and torment her, to make her confeſs her Treaſures; they diggdig even into the heart of craggy Rocks, and take incredible pains for Silver and …
With rule
… bowels of the earth, and torment her, to make her confeſs her Treaſures; they diggdig even into the heart of craggy Rocks, and take incredible pains for Silver and …
Simon Patrick · Discourse Concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 377 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which course being held against them five year together, forced them at last to diggdig wells within their Citie walls, and to live of that. This is delivered by …
With rule
… which course being held against them five year together, forced them at last to diggdig wells within their Citie walls, and to live of that. This is delivered by …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the Bb. haue these 30. yeares so builte / that they are almost come to diggdig at the foundation of the Church) le…t velike men shoulde by building after …
With rule
… for the Bb. haue these 30. yeares so builte / that they are almost come to diggdig at the foundation of the Church) le…t velike men shoulde by building after …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Voice of the Rod A61667

Printed
… Here is certainly a Pearl of great price hid; a Gemme of infinite value; DiggDig, and thou ſhalt find it; find it, and it ſhall enrich thee both in …
With rule
… Here is certainly a Pearl of great price hid; a Gemme of infinite value; DiggDig, and thou ſhalt find it; find it, and it ſhall enrich thee both in …
Samuel Stodden · The Voice of the Rod · p. 268 · Open in the reader

Christ and the Covenant A77360

Printed
… ti… eſpecially, — And then make it your work a buſineſs to know Chriſt crucified: DiggDig in … Mynes for this Knowledge.
With rule
… ti… eſpecially, — And then make it your work a buſineſs to know Chriſt crucified: DiggDig in … Mynes for this Knowledge.
William Bridge · Christ and the Covenant · p. 49 · Open in the reader

The Figless Fig Tree A91944

Printed
… anſwering ſaid unto him; Lord, let it alone this year alſo, till I ſhall DiggDig about it and Dung it.
With rule
… anſwering ſaid unto him; Lord, let it alone this year alſo, till I ſhall DiggDig about it and Dung it.
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · Open in the reader
Printed
… anſwering ſayd unto him, Lord, let it alone this year alſo, till I ſhall DiggDig about it and Dung it.
With rule
… anſwering ſayd unto him, Lord, let it alone this year alſo, till I ſhall DiggDig about it and Dung it.
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · Open in the reader
Printed
DiggDig about it,
With rule
DiggDig about it,
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · Open in the reader
Printed
… was, Labor cum ſudore, a ſoar ſweating Labour: Who ſweats more then they, who DiggDig and Delve, and Till the Earth? God impoſeth it on Adam, and all his …
With rule
… was, Labor cum ſudore, a ſoar ſweating Labour: Who ſweats more then they, who DiggDig and Delve, and Till the Earth? God impoſeth it on Adam, and all his …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · p. 389 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with this Poynt); For if the Dreſſers Office be to Dung as well as DiggDig, then if you want Comfort, or are dejected in Spirit by reaſon of your …
With rule
… with this Poynt); For if the Dreſſers Office be to Dung as well as DiggDig, then if you want Comfort, or are dejected in Spirit by reaſon of your …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · p. 425 · Open in the reader