Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31673 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spechesspeeches

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 117 times in 62 works
Consistency: 99.1% (117 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: speeches
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 62 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bodye without heade, armes, and legges: they vſe oftentymes folyſhe and ſtraunge maner of ſpechesspeeches, and without a deliberate purpoſe, ſtyl leapyng frome the Locke to the Aſſe, do …
With rule
… bodye without heade, armes, and legges: they vſe oftentymes folyſhe and ſtraunge maner of ſpechesspeeches, and without a deliberate purpoſe, ſtyl leapyng frome the Locke to the Aſſe, do …
John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader
Printed
… de priued thereof, as hath bene ſhewed. Yf it be ſaid that theſe actions & ſpechesspeeches came from the diuels within them I anſwer that that is moſt true: yet …
With rule
… de priued thereof, as hath bene ſhewed. Yf it be ſaid that theſe actions & ſpechesspeeches came from the diuels within them I anſwer that that is moſt true: yet …
John Darrell · Narration of the Strange and Grievous Vexation by the Devil · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the Goſpel ſhould be wel ſpokē of, take away the occaſiō of ſuch ſpechesspeeches.
With rule
… that the Goſpel ſhould be wel ſpokē of, take away the occaſiō of ſuch ſpechesspeeches.
Thomas Cartwright · The Holy Exercise of a True Fast · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other exceeding treacherie to deceiue the Reader, is this: that they vse Catholike termes & spechesspeeches in such places where they may make them odious, & where they must needes sound …
With rule
… other exceeding treacherie to deceiue the Reader, is this: that they vse Catholike termes & spechesspeeches in such places where they may make them odious, & where they must needes sound …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 501 · Open in the reader
Printed
… largely for it. Now ſir, if any ſhall either enter with you vnto any ſpechesspeeches againſt the ſtate, and in defence of theſe libelles: or elſe, if any can …
With rule
… largely for it. Now ſir, if any ſhall either enter with you vnto any ſpechesspeeches againſt the ſtate, and in defence of theſe libelles: or elſe, if any can …
Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · Open in the reader
Printed
… hist. lib, 5. cap 1. Bucolc. Index. In like maner Christians were persecuted with the slāderous spechesspeeches of Pagans, objecting vnto them the bankets of THYESTES, & the chambering of OEDIPVS, that …
With rule
… hist. lib, 5. cap 1. Bucolc. Index. In like maner Christians were persecuted with the slāderous spechesspeeches of Pagans, objecting vnto them the bankets of THYESTES, & the chambering of OEDIPVS, that …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet then his Spirit doth ſtirre vp in vs, though not many wel ordered ſpechesspeeches or words; yet thoſe ſighes and groanes which beeing vnſpeakable, and not felt of …
With rule
… yet then his Spirit doth ſtirre vp in vs, though not many wel ordered ſpechesspeeches or words; yet thoſe ſighes and groanes which beeing vnſpeakable, and not felt of …
Nicholas Bownd · A Treatise Full of Consolation for All that are Afflicted · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
Iohn from Eſa. 2. and 14 and 34 and Oſe. 10. ſeeth a viſion fitted to their ſpechesspeeches, that by conſidering Iudaes fall, the ten tribes fall, Aſſurs fall, and Daniels Image …
With rule
Iohn from Eſa. 2. and 14 and 34 and Oſe. 10. ſeeth a viſion fitted to their ſpechesspeeches, that by conſidering Iudaes fall, the ten tribes fall, Aſſurs fall, and Daniels Image …
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.