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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6335 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

comoncommon

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
441 times in 142 works
Consistency
93.8% (441 of 470)
Reach if approved
~494 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: common
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
470 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (441 changes in 142 works, 93.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 441)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … write with great discretion and authoritie, That the whole conuocation of the people, or comoncommon sorte, gathered together, haue no authoritie in the world to conclude, determine, or decide …
    With rule
    … write with great discretion and authoritie, That the whole conuocation of the people, or comoncommon sorte, gathered together, haue no authoritie in the world to conclude, determine, or decide …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    As for example, it is the comoncommon opinion in Spaine and Italy that Latria, or divine honor is due to the …
    With rule
    As for example, it is the comoncommon opinion in Spaine and Italy that Latria, or divine honor is due to the …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hauing here a large ſcope, & very plentifull matter, if I woulde enter into this comoncommon place of prayer, into the whiche my text violently ſéemeth, as it were to …
    With rule
    … hauing here a large ſcope, & very plentifull matter, if I woulde enter into this comoncommon place of prayer, into the whiche my text violently ſéemeth, as it were to …

    John Stockwood · Sermon 24 August 1578 · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … be called a rayler / ſedicyous / a maker of dyſcorde and a troubeler of the comoncommon peace, ye a ſcyſmatyke and an heretyke alſo / and to be lyed vpon that …
    With rule
    … be called a rayler / ſedicyous / a maker of dyſcorde and a troubeler of the comoncommon peace, ye a ſcyſmatyke and an heretyke alſo / and to be lyed vpon that …

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxiiii · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … left me in all the world, to defend me against my Aduersaryes, & supply the comoncommon necessityes of nature, so much as vvill feed me one vveeke, vnles I labor …
    With rule
    … left me in all the world, to defend me against my Aduersaryes, & supply the comoncommon necessityes of nature, so much as vvill feed me one vveeke, vnles I labor …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is not alwayes imperfect, as Sander saith, but being well vsed, is better then comoncommon speech. Although what blessing meaneth in this place, the other Euangelistes do declare, which …
    With rule
    … is not alwayes imperfect, as Sander saith, but being well vsed, is better then comoncommon speech. Although what blessing meaneth in this place, the other Euangelistes do declare, which …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 576 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … at firſt written in Greek, and not in Engliſh. Wherefore the Engliſh terme (how comoncommon ſo ever) muſt not preiudice vs, nor the truth in this matter, as very …
    With rule
    … at firſt written in Greek, and not in Engliſh. Wherefore the Engliſh terme (how comoncommon ſo ever) muſt not preiudice vs, nor the truth in this matter, as very …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and perſons, &c. And a Moderator of the lawe is more neceſſary in the comoncommon weale, then a lawe maker, as we may ſée by ye example of our …
    With rule
    … and perſons, &c. And a Moderator of the lawe is more neceſſary in the comoncommon weale, then a lawe maker, as we may ſée by ye example of our …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 128 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (29)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 24 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ A04214

  • Printed
    … anſwer 2. wayes. Firſt, Admitting, then Denying the authority of th…ſe words in our ComonCommon Cre…d. 1. Admitting the authority of theſe words, (& yet, Not as ſufficient, not as …
    With rule
    … anſwer 2. wayes. Firſt, Admitting, then Denying the authority of th…ſe words in our ComonCommon Cre…d. 1. Admitting the authority of theſe words, (& yet, Not as ſufficient, not as …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 195 · Open in the reader

Christianography A08826

  • Printed
    … places, as Azorius the Ieſuit ſaith it fals out that that which was the ComonCommon opinion a few yeares ſince, is not the opinion now, and that which is …
    With rule
    … places, as Azorius the Ieſuit ſaith it fals out that that which was the ComonCommon opinion a few yeares ſince, is not the opinion now, and that which is …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 136 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

  • Printed
    … their laſt Workes, which are moe then the former. For ſo doth reade the ComonCommon tranſlation, the Complutent Edition, and the Kings Edition, who is alſo uſed by Robart …
    With rule
    … their laſt Workes, which are moe then the former. For ſo doth reade the ComonCommon tranſlation, the Complutent Edition, and the Kings Edition, who is alſo uſed by Robart …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 65 · Open in the reader

The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony A17171

  • Printed
    ComonCommon sentences for the kepyng of thy house. The lefe. lxvi
    With rule
    ComonCommon sentences for the kepyng of thy house. The lefe. lxvi

    Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · Open in the reader

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine A40681

  • Printed
    … possession. Iosh. 15. 57 Judah Caleb. L. All-heart. 1 Sam. 30. 14 Judah Caleb-Ephrata. C. 1 Chr. 2. 24 Judah ComonCommon. C. Iudg. 10. 5 Manas. tr. Jor. 70. 10 33. 30 Cana. C. Ioh. 2. 1 Zebulun 69. 10 34. 00 Capernaum. C. Village of consolation …
    With rule
    … possession. Iosh. 15. 57 Judah Caleb. L. All-heart. 1 Sam. 30. 14 Judah Caleb-Ephrata. C. 1 Chr. 2. 24 Judah ComonCommon. C. Iudg. 10. 5 Manas. tr. Jor. 70. 10 33. 30 Cana. C. Ioh. 2. 1 Zebulun 69. 10 34. 00 Capernaum. C. Village of consolation …

    Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · Open in the reader