Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6533 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

crokedcrooked

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 144 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.3% (144 of 145)
Reach if approved: ~152 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: crooked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 145 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (144 changes in 91 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 144)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… can neyther thynke, luste, nor employe hym to any thyng, but y^• is vngodly, crokedcrooked, nawty and vnpure, for the harte beyng so in the inner partes enuenomed with …
With rule
… can neyther thynke, luste, nor employe hym to any thyng, but y^• is vngodly, crokedcrooked, nawty and vnpure, for the harte beyng so in the inner partes enuenomed with …
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vsuall instrument, which is sounded in the warre: Pintus saith it was a crokedcrooked instrument made of brasse: but it properly rather signifieth a horne or cornet: which …
With rule
… the vsuall instrument, which is sounded in the warre: Pintus saith it was a crokedcrooked instrument made of brasse: but it properly rather signifieth a horne or cornet: which …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trade, ye that are Merchants, looke vnto your dealing, ye that are Lawyers, how crokedcrooked or how straight ye are: ye that are Lords and Iudges, with what conscience …
With rule
… trade, ye that are Merchants, looke vnto your dealing, ye that are Lawyers, how crokedcrooked or how straight ye are: ye that are Lords and Iudges, with what conscience …
Robert Bruce · The Way to True Peace and Rest · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me with thy fre spirit: doth he not coūt his hart vnclean, his spirit crokedcrooked, the ioy of his saluatiō lost, & himselfe subiect to the spirit of bondage; so …
With rule
… me with thy fre spirit: doth he not coūt his hart vnclean, his spirit crokedcrooked, the ioy of his saluatiō lost, & himselfe subiect to the spirit of bondage; so …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… of y^e holye martirs & sainctes of y^e primatiue church. Lyke a byrde was that crokedcrooked Leuiathan in those dayes so tamed, that no man set by him at all.
With rule
… of y^e holye martirs & sainctes of y^e primatiue church. Lyke a byrde was that crokedcrooked Leuiathan in those dayes so tamed, that no man set by him at all.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his colours. Pranum corhominis et inscrutabile. The herte of man is naughty, a crokedcrooked, & a frowarde pece of worke.
With rule
… in his colours. Pranum corhominis et inscrutabile. The herte of man is naughty, a crokedcrooked, & a frowarde pece of worke.
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… doctrine and glory, and laboure to stablishe their owne drousy dreames, lowe…ye lawes, crokedcrooked cōstitutions, diuel lishe decres, Antichristian actes, and al for their God y^e belly. So …
With rule
… doctrine and glory, and laboure to stablishe their owne drousy dreames, lowe…ye lawes, crokedcrooked cōstitutions, diuel lishe decres, Antichristian actes, and al for their God y^e belly. So …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſetfoorth. Aprou…nce (I confeſſe) farre paſſyng my power, eſpecially in thys miſerable and crokedcrooked age, & alſo ſkyl, if any wer at al wyth tract of yeares, lothſome ſycknes …
With rule
… ſetfoorth. Aprou…nce (I confeſſe) farre paſſyng my power, eſpecially in thys miſerable and crokedcrooked age, & alſo ſkyl, if any wer at al wyth tract of yeares, lothſome ſycknes …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · 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.