Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6579 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

affoordafford

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 842 times in 384 works
Consistency: 99.6% (842 of 845)
Reach if approved: ~888 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: afford
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 845 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (842 changes in 384 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 842)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… no audience, ſhew him no countenance, neither bid him God ſpeed, ſalute him not, affoordafford him no ſpeech, wiſh him no ſucceſſe, ſhut your eares at him, withdraw your …
With rule
… no audience, ſhew him no countenance, neither bid him God ſpeed, ſalute him not, affoordafford him no ſpeech, wiſh him no ſucceſſe, ſhut your eares at him, withdraw your …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy father Iacob. This ſtreame here, relieueth the body for a time, but cannot affoordafford a perpetuall filling: the water which I haue to giue ſhall euerlaſtingly ſatiſfie the …
With rule
… thy father Iacob. This ſtreame here, relieueth the body for a time, but cannot affoordafford a perpetuall filling: the water which I haue to giue ſhall euerlaſtingly ſatiſfie the …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that which is more in this case, such …fession and writing doth not onely affoordafford them no help in …heyr estate, but doth rather make theyr sinne the more …
With rule
… that which is more in this case, such …fession and writing doth not onely affoordafford them no help in …heyr estate, but doth rather make theyr sinne the more …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Broaths, as excellent as the Art of the Apothecary, or of the Kitchin, can affoordafford. So that one did not without cauſe merrily ſay, That he had rather be …
With rule
… Broaths, as excellent as the Art of the Apothecary, or of the Kitchin, can affoordafford. So that one did not without cauſe merrily ſay, That he had rather be …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee must yeeld that which the lawe and our countries customes and curtesies do affoordafford: thus much for the thing.
With rule
… wee must yeeld that which the lawe and our countries customes and curtesies do affoordafford: thus much for the thing.
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſayd, hée would rather breake it, then to ſell it otherwiſe then hée might affoordafford it: yea (ſayd the Inquiſitour) breake it? let me ſée thée: with that Rochus …
With rule
… ſayd, hée would rather breake it, then to ſell it otherwiſe then hée might affoordafford it: yea (ſayd the Inquiſitour) breake it? let me ſée thée: with that Rochus …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 471 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of man, which ſeeme moſt gay, to be ſo corrupt, that it doth not affoordafford him a good thought. When al the thoughts of his heart are onely euill …
With rule
… of man, which ſeeme moſt gay, to be ſo corrupt, that it doth not affoordafford him a good thought. When al the thoughts of his heart are onely euill …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… as we may receiue much comfort in. Therefore though our Righteouſneſſe in it ſelfe, affoordafford no matter of boaſting, yet in regard of Gods gracious acceptation, it is a …
With rule
… as we may receiue much comfort in. Therefore though our Righteouſneſſe in it ſelfe, affoordafford no matter of boaſting, yet in regard of Gods gracious acceptation, it is a …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 155 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
AffoordAfford by number, kiſſes, ſights by tale,
With rule
AffoordAfford by number, kiſſes, ſights by tale,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 59 · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
AffoordAfford a Milo, or a Hercules?
With rule
AffoordAfford a Milo, or a Hercules?
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader