Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6547 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

totalltotal

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 2,140 times in 783 works
Consistency: 99.8% (2,140 of 2,143)
Reach if approved: ~2,253 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: total
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,144 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,140 changes in 783 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,140)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… us to the gallowes: summe up thy losse, & thou shalt finde this is the totalltotal; thou loosest death and hell, but what? dost thou get nothing by this losse …
With rule
… us to the gallowes: summe up thy losse, & thou shalt finde this is the totalltotal; thou loosest death and hell, but what? dost thou get nothing by this losse …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
The totalltotal of theſe precious Iewels may be reduced to two heads:
With rule
The totalltotal of theſe precious Iewels may be reduced to two heads:
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of blood. And thus we see that there is a partiall and not a totalltotal forsaking of sinnes in men. But such men must know, that they haue not …
With rule
… of blood. And thus we see that there is a partiall and not a totalltotal forsaking of sinnes in men. But such men must know, that they haue not …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 303 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the working of mens affections to a more tolerable opinion (if not a totalltotal embracing) of Poperie. Thirdly, this skill is no leſſe neceſſarie, in reſpect of ſo …
With rule
… to the working of mens affections to a more tolerable opinion (if not a totalltotal embracing) of Poperie. Thirdly, this skill is no leſſe neceſſarie, in reſpect of ſo …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hundred thouſand crownes. Thus ſaith the Senate of Paris. Now let vs collect the totalltotal ſumme of the ſummes. We ſhall find that it amounteth to the ſumme of …
With rule
… hundred thouſand crownes. Thus ſaith the Senate of Paris. Now let vs collect the totalltotal ſumme of the ſummes. We ſhall find that it amounteth to the ſumme of …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a proportion out of two triangles of equall heighth. For the forth of the totalltotal equally heighted triangles u a o, and y a s, although they be reciprocall …
With rule
… a proportion out of two triangles of equall heighth. For the forth of the totalltotal equally heighted triangles u a o, and y a s, although they be reciprocall …
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſecond marke and fore-runner of Antichriſt, is the totalltotal ſubuerſion of the Romane Empire: That as Chriſt came into the world, when this …
With rule
The ſecond marke and fore-runner of Antichriſt, is the totalltotal ſubuerſion of the Romane Empire: That as Chriſt came into the world, when this …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all my sins, especially those (which this day and weeke hath added to the totalltotal summe) in his graue; and teach me by it to burie in the pit …
With rule
… all my sins, especially those (which this day and weeke hath added to the totalltotal summe) in his graue; and teach me by it to burie in the pit …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 487 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 A56162

Printed
… the Laws and Civil Rights of the Nation, nothing would ſerve them, but a TOTALLTOTAL ERADICATION OF THE OLD, AND INTRODUCTION OF A NEW: and ſo the good Old …
With rule
… the Laws and Civil Rights of the Nation, nothing would ſerve them, but a TOTALLTOTAL ERADICATION OF THE OLD, AND INTRODUCTION OF A NEW: and ſo the good Old …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · p. 55 · Open in the reader