Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6719 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swetsweet

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 109 times in 92 works
Consistency: 96.4% (109 of 113)
Reach if approved: ~119 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: sweated
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (109 changes in 92 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 109)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they ſeeme to one that beholdeth them, as if they tooke great paines, and ſwetsweet with bearing the worke: whereas indeed they are without feeling, and they help the …
With rule
… they ſeeme to one that beholdeth them, as if they tooke great paines, and ſwetsweet with bearing the worke: whereas indeed they are without feeling, and they help the …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wurthily praising thee may feel, taste and sauour, in the palace of myhart, how swetsweet and pleasaūt thou art (O Lorde) as it is written. Doo ye tast and …
With rule
… wurthily praising thee may feel, taste and sauour, in the palace of myhart, how swetsweet and pleasaūt thou art (O Lorde) as it is written. Doo ye tast and …
Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… he haue ſaied otherwiſe) impaired the credit of ours. But how vainly hee hath ſwetsweet, euen to the tyring of himſelfe, & his reader about this point, in many chapters …
With rule
… he haue ſaied otherwiſe) impaired the credit of ours. But how vainly hee hath ſwetsweet, euen to the tyring of himſelfe, & his reader about this point, in many chapters …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
After we have swetsweet and smarted six dayes, …omes a Sabbath of eternall rest,
With rule
After we have swetsweet and smarted six dayes, …omes a Sabbath of eternall rest,
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the poſſeſſions of thys worlde, more then that whiche you gette wyth the ſwetsweet of your faces.
With rule
… of the poſſeſſions of thys worlde, more then that whiche you gette wyth the ſwetsweet of your faces.
Robert Crowley · Petition Against the Oppressors of the Poor Commons of this Realm · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Wine-preſs of his father's wrath for ſouls, he wept for ſouls, he ſwetsweet for ſouls, he prayed for ſouls, he payed for ſouls, and he bled out …
With rule
… the Wine-preſs of his father's wrath for ſouls, he wept for ſouls, he ſwetsweet for ſouls, he prayed for ſouls, he payed for ſouls, and he bled out …
Thomas Brooks · A Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he was well pleaſed therewith, its taken from the practiſe of men, who uſed ſwetsweet ſmeels, Iſa. 3.24.
With rule
… he was well pleaſed therewith, its taken from the practiſe of men, who uſed ſwetsweet ſmeels, Iſa. 3.24.
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
Tells how the drudging Goblin ſwetsweet,
With rule
Tells how the drudging Goblin ſwetsweet,
John Milton · Poems · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.