Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6830 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

alassalas

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 689 times in 286 works
Consistency: 99.7% (689 of 691)
Reach if approved: ~726 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: alas
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 691 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (689 changes in 286 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 689)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be a duty. And therefore why do men cry out of their great buſineſs? alaſsalas duty muſt be done, what ever buſineſs is left undone; duty muſt muſt be …
With rule
… be a duty. And therefore why do men cry out of their great buſineſs? alaſsalas duty muſt be done, what ever buſineſs is left undone; duty muſt muſt be …
Thomas Brooks · The Privy Key of Heaven · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… its worth, it could not call back one day that is paſt; and yet alaſsalas how prodigal are many of their time, as if they knew not how to …
With rule
… its worth, it could not call back one day that is paſt; and yet alaſsalas how prodigal are many of their time, as if they knew not how to …
Edward Bury · Englands Bane · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſerve a worſhip from him, than the preſent evil had reaſon to diſcourage it. AlaſsAlas! what is only fear'd, is hated, not ador'd: Would any ſeek to an irreconcilable …
With rule
… deſerve a worſhip from him, than the preſent evil had reaſon to diſcourage it. AlaſsAlas! what is only fear'd, is hated, not ador'd: Would any ſeek to an irreconcilable …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 673 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lay aſide our ornaments, that He might know what to do unto us▪ many alaſsalas take more time in theſe day… to busk and dreſs, and to look in …
With rule
… lay aſide our ornaments, that He might know what to do unto us▪ many alaſsalas take more time in theſe day… to busk and dreſs, and to look in …
James Durham · The Law Unsealed · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus far he▪ But alassalas! What security have any of us as to our earthly comforts from the common …
With rule
Thus far he▪ But alassalas! What security have any of us as to our earthly comforts from the common …
John Flavel · Two Treatises · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some little time before it, to do all the business of their Souls; But, alassalas! Heaven is too high to be thus jumpt into, the way to it is …
With rule
… some little time before it, to do all the business of their Souls; But, alassalas! Heaven is too high to be thus jumpt into, the way to it is …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Man · p. 384 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not by wilfulness or negligence till thou canst say, thou art behind his back. AlassAlas that we should have no more awakened serious souls and no more fervent lively …
With rule
… not by wilfulness or negligence till thou canst say, thou art behind his back. AlassAlas that we should have no more awakened serious souls and no more fervent lively …
Richard Baxter · The Divine Life · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
XI. And alaſsalas what a diſtraction and ſcandal ſhould I have cauſed to the ignorant and weak …
With rule
XI. And alaſsalas what a diſtraction and ſcandal ſhould I have cauſed to the ignorant and weak …
Richard Baxter · Review of the State of Christians Infants · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise of New England N02753

Printed
ALASSALAS! Are we not become as an Oak, whoſe Leaf fadeth, and the Stock thereof …
With rule
ALASSALAS! Are we not become as an Oak, whoſe Leaf fadeth, and the Stock thereof …
Thomas Foxcroft · Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise of New England · p. 39 · Open in the reader