Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31687 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wollwool

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 122 times in 61 works
Consistency: 92.4% (122 of 132)
Reach if approved: ~139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: will
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 132 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (122 changes in 61 works, 92.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 122)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… made white at ſnow: though they were red as skarlet, they ſhall be as wollwool.
With rule
… made white at ſnow: though they were red as skarlet, they ſhall be as wollwool.
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
§ 12. And as he spake wollwool, so he did as well therein. The blind and the lame came to him …
With rule
§ 12. And as he spake wollwool, so he did as well therein. The blind and the lame came to him …
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 429 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not afrayed of S. Laurence? who dare denye. S. Anthony a fleſe of wollwool for feare of his terrible fire or leſt hee ſende the poxe among our …
With rule
… is not afrayed of S. Laurence? who dare denye. S. Anthony a fleſe of wollwool for feare of his terrible fire or leſt hee ſende the poxe among our …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 399 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as white as ſhow; though they be red like crimſon, they ſhall be as wollwool. Skarlet and crimſon are double and deepe dies, dies in graine, yet if the …
With rule
… as white as ſhow; though they be red like crimſon, they ſhall be as wollwool. Skarlet and crimſon are double and deepe dies, dies in graine, yet if the …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue eaten the milke of the sheepe, ye haue clothed your ſelues with the wollwool, the beſt fed ye haue ſlaine, but my flocke haue ye not fed. The …
With rule
… haue eaten the milke of the sheepe, ye haue clothed your ſelues with the wollwool, the beſt fed ye haue ſlaine, but my flocke haue ye not fed. The …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be made white as show: though they were red as skarlet, they shalbe as wollwool. If we haue the hād or writing of an honest man, we think our …
With rule
… be made white as show: though they were red as skarlet, they shalbe as wollwool. If we haue the hād or writing of an honest man, we think our …
Henry Smith · Jacobs Ladder · Open in the reader
Printed
… when I saye Christ is a lābe / I meane not a lambe that beareth wollwool / but a meke and a paciente lambe which is beaten for other mens fautes …
With rule
… when I saye Christ is a lābe / I meane not a lambe that beareth wollwool / but a meke and a paciente lambe which is beaten for other mens fautes …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… The women likewiſe to forbeare al Manuall worke, as weauing, ſowing, embroydring, kemming of wollwool, dreſſing of flaxe, ſhearing of ſheep, and waſhing of clothes, &c. The Marchant and …
With rule
… The women likewiſe to forbeare al Manuall worke, as weauing, ſowing, embroydring, kemming of wollwool, dreſſing of flaxe, ſhearing of ſheep, and waſhing of clothes, &c. The Marchant and …
Nicholas Bownd · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 75 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Garden of Wisdom A13399

Printed
… or thou dost owe it me. And he offred hym the consulshyp of Rome. WollWool ye knowe the ende of this mater? Cinna euet af ter loued Augustus best …
With rule
… or thou dost owe it me. And he offred hym the consulshyp of Rome. WollWool ye knowe the ende of this mater? Cinna euet af ter loued Augustus best …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader