Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6722 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

walswalls

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 1,449 times in 578 works
Consistency: 100% (1,449 of 1,449)
Reach if approved: ~1,524 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: walls
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,450 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,449 changes in 578 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,449)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the great affliction, and reproach Gods people were in at Ierusalem, verse 3. How the walswalls of Ierusalem were broken downe, and the gates thereof burnt with fire, he sat …
With rule
… the great affliction, and reproach Gods people were in at Ierusalem, verse 3. How the walswalls of Ierusalem were broken downe, and the gates thereof burnt with fire, he sat …
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… comfortably; as Luke 19.9. This day ſalvation is come to thy houſe, not to the walswalls of thy houſe, but to the men that are in the houſe: they did …
With rule
… comfortably; as Luke 19.9. This day ſalvation is come to thy houſe, not to the walswalls of thy houſe, but to the men that are in the houſe: they did …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 642 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Images of wood or ſtone, or marble, or braſſe, or pictures painted vpon the walswalls not as figures, but as if they had verily ſenſe, and doe put more …
With rule
… Images of wood or ſtone, or marble, or braſſe, or pictures painted vpon the walswalls not as figures, but as if they had verily ſenſe, and doe put more …
Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when it makes a famine to invade a countrey, that it creepeth into the walswalls of the houſe of bread, into Bethlehem it ſelfe, & cauſeth the wealthieſt of them …
With rule
… when it makes a famine to invade a countrey, that it creepeth into the walswalls of the houſe of bread, into Bethlehem it ſelfe, & cauſeth the wealthieſt of them …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… together with his wits, at a Tauerne: alas these are pitteous shifts, weaker then walswalls of paper.
With rule
… together with his wits, at a Tauerne: alas these are pitteous shifts, weaker then walswalls of paper.
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
And he measured the walswalls there of an hundreth forty and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that …
With rule
And he measured the walswalls there of an hundreth forty and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… cattell: their spirits cannot bee taken heede of, nor kept out with doores and walswalls as theéues and murtherers, but come in when they bee sent, and doe so …
With rule
… cattell: their spirits cannot bee taken heede of, nor kept out with doores and walswalls as theéues and murtherers, but come in when they bee sent, and doe so …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… wild Caniball in a prison, may onely exercise his savage cruelty vpon the stone walswalls, or yron grates. But the tongue is so placed, that being euill and vnruly …
With rule
… wild Caniball in a prison, may onely exercise his savage cruelty vpon the stone walswalls, or yron grates. But the tongue is so placed, that being euill and vnruly …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 39 · 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.