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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6623 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bushellbushel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
454 times in 261 works
Consistency
100% (454 of 454)
Reach if approved
~477 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bushel
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
454 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (454 changes in 261 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 454)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … seed of an Homer, shall yeeld an Ephah; where ten bushels are sowne, one bushellbushel shall bee reaped. at fiftie shekels] that is, shall be esteemed as 50 shekels, for …
    With rule
    … seed of an Homer, shall yeeld an Ephah; where ten bushels are sowne, one bushellbushel shall bee reaped. at fiftie shekels] that is, shall be esteemed as 50 shekels, for …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in all the wayes of godlinesse. Faith is not as a light under a bushellbushel; therefore shew mee thy faith by thy workes. Grace is as a light in …
    With rule
    … in all the wayes of godlinesse. Faith is not as a light under a bushellbushel; therefore shew mee thy faith by thy workes. Grace is as a light in …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 277 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … sée within the cōpasse of a bushellbushel more thē xx. starres. But if his bushellbushel were on fyre xx. myle of, I demaunde how bygge it would séem vnto …
    With rule
    … sée within the cōpasse of a bushellbushel more thē xx. starres. But if his bushellbushel were on fyre xx. myle of, I demaunde how bygge it would séem vnto …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … light. And Chriſt argues from an apparent abſurdity to put a light under a buſhellbushel, which may give light to all the houſe; Haſt thou knowledge of God and …
    With rule
    … light. And Chriſt argues from an apparent abſurdity to put a light under a buſhellbushel, which may give light to all the houſe; Haſt thou knowledge of God and …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sentences of Scripture, as Teend ye not a candle, and put it vnder a bushellbushel, but set it on a candlesticke, that it may giue light to all in …
    With rule
    … sentences of Scripture, as Teend ye not a candle, and put it vnder a bushellbushel, but set it on a candlesticke, that it may giue light to all in …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the daūger very great to all ſuch as couer this his light vnder a buſhellbushel, that deteyne this precious iewell vnder vnrighteouſneſſe of life. The worlde was neuer more …
    With rule
    … the daūger very great to all ſuch as couer this his light vnder a buſhellbushel, that deteyne this precious iewell vnder vnrighteouſneſſe of life. The worlde was neuer more …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … it was done accordingly. The light of the Goſpell being herevpon clapt vnderneath a buſhellbushel indeed, ſo that the people did eate their bread by waight and meaſure. It …
    With rule
    … it was done accordingly. The light of the Goſpell being herevpon clapt vnderneath a buſhellbushel indeed, ſo that the people did eate their bread by waight and meaſure. It …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … with your sticke you might kill them. Other egges they had of Tortoises, a bushellbushel in the belly of one, very sweet: they tooke fortie of them in a …
    With rule
    … with your sticke you might kill them. Other egges they had of Tortoises, a bushellbushel in the belly of one, very sweet: they tooke fortie of them in a …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 746 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.