Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6768 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fittfit

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 526 times in 185 works
Consistency: 97.7% (526 of 538)
Reach if approved: ~565 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fit
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 538 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (526 changes in 185 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 526)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… All the apostles, excepte Iohan and Paule, had wyues. See therfor if it be fittfit to accuse or speake yll by the Apostle Peter, whyche is the chefe among …
With rule
… All the apostles, excepte Iohan and Paule, had wyues. See therfor if it be fittfit to accuse or speake yll by the Apostle Peter, whyche is the chefe among …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lxxv · Open in the reader
Printed
… purpose, when God shall give vs such as for theyr yeares and otherwise are fittfit to be Widovves and Helpers of the Church in this behalf, to designe and …
With rule
… purpose, when God shall give vs such as for theyr yeares and otherwise are fittfit to be Widovves and Helpers of the Church in this behalf, to designe and …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men haue their hearts eaſe, but good mē are in miſerie. TELAMON was no fittfit man to make any conſtruction of Gods proceedings.
With rule
… men haue their hearts eaſe, but good mē are in miſerie. TELAMON was no fittfit man to make any conſtruction of Gods proceedings.
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… y^e holy ſacramentes. Agayne, that before his admiſſion he bee tryed, and examined, howe fittfit, and able hee is to doe this worke of the Lorde; and ſo he …
With rule
… y^e holy ſacramentes. Agayne, that before his admiſſion he bee tryed, and examined, howe fittfit, and able hee is to doe this worke of the Lorde; and ſo he …
Thomas Sampson · The Church and Certain Ceremonies · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the verie ſame place, Ambroſe alſo ſaith, that in the Scriptures is matter fittfit for all perſons to drinke firſt, ſecond, and laſt; where by he alſo teacheth …
With rule
… in the verie ſame place, Ambroſe alſo ſaith, that in the Scriptures is matter fittfit for all perſons to drinke firſt, ſecond, and laſt; where by he alſo teacheth …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… contrary for principles, and laying them as foundations of his cause most congruosly (for fittfit it is that a rott…n cause shoulde have a rotten foundation) and to …
With rule
… contrary for principles, and laying them as foundations of his cause most congruosly (for fittfit it is that a rott…n cause shoulde have a rotten foundation) and to …
William Twisse · The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
Preſents an Emblem, fittfit for thee.
With rule
Preſents an Emblem, fittfit for thee.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
These words well fittfit his heart, so you, so I
With rule
These words well fittfit his heart, so you, so I
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.