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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6410 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

merymerry

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
496 times in 186 works
Consistency
98.2% (496 of 505)
Reach if approved
~531 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: merry
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
505 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (496 changes in 186 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 496)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … safe Go thy way in peace, that is to saye, wyth a quiete and merymerry conscience. O good God, who is able to expresse wt howe great ioye and …
    With rule
    … safe Go thy way in peace, that is to saye, wyth a quiete and merymerry conscience. O good God, who is able to expresse wt howe great ioye and …

    Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … wayghtie causes, why we shoulde of very right and boūden dutie reioyse and be merymerry in the Lorde. Nowe it remayneth orderlye to declare the finall and laste cause …
    With rule
    … wayghtie causes, why we shoulde of very right and boūden dutie reioyse and be merymerry in the Lorde. Nowe it remayneth orderlye to declare the finall and laste cause …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of thy fauorable goodnes towards vs may reioyce and glory in thee, and haue merymerry hartes when so euer we be most assailed with any kinde of aduersitie, be …
    With rule
    … of thy fauorable goodnes towards vs may reioyce and glory in thee, and haue merymerry hartes when so euer we be most assailed with any kinde of aduersitie, be …

    Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … much goods laid vp for many yeares; liue at ease, eate, drinke, and be merymerry: these worldlings faine would flatter themselues with assurance of many yeares life, and much …
    With rule
    … much goods laid vp for many yeares; liue at ease, eate, drinke, and be merymerry: these worldlings faine would flatter themselues with assurance of many yeares life, and much …

    John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is presumed the deuill can doe the like. And I haue heard of a merymerry companion that wrought such a cure. Ther was one in London (as report goeth …
    With rule
    … is presumed the deuill can doe the like. And I haue heard of a merymerry companion that wrought such a cure. Ther was one in London (as report goeth …

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Scot did bitterly speake against it. Of this Pope Iohn came this prouerbe, As merymerry as Pope Iohn.
    With rule
    … Scot did bitterly speake against it. Of this Pope Iohn came this prouerbe, As merymerry as Pope Iohn.

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the sea, and that Bene were oute, it were well. For I coulde be merymerry, and I coulde do, but I loue not to do well That, Bene marres …
    With rule
    … the sea, and that Bene were oute, it were well. For I coulde be merymerry, and I coulde do, but I loue not to do well That, Bene marres …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … groūde, & it ſhal returne againe in the laſt day renewed, ſwifte, well fortifyed, whole, merymerry, ſtronge, endewed with moſt proſperouſe and perpetuall health, as Paule teacheth vs. i. Corin …
    With rule
    … groūde, & it ſhal returne againe in the laſt day renewed, ſwifte, well fortifyed, whole, merymerry, ſtronge, endewed with moſt proſperouſe and perpetuall health, as Paule teacheth vs. i. Corin …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

0 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.