Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6947 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

affricaafrica

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 259 times in 143 works
Consistency: 99.6% (259 of 260)
Reach if approved: ~273 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: africa
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 260 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (259 changes in 143 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 259)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… corrupt Latine texte (as it should seeme) wherevpon M. Allen buildeth, they vsed in AffricaAfrica to make sumptuous and dronken feastes, vpon the graues of men in the places …
With rule
… corrupt Latine texte (as it should seeme) wherevpon M. Allen buildeth, they vsed in AffricaAfrica to make sumptuous and dronken feastes, vpon the graues of men in the places …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Goſpell: As Ortellius ſpeaketh of the kingdome of Nubia, which is a part of AffricaAfrica, That it was in time paſt imbued with Chriſtian religion, and yet at this …
With rule
… Goſpell: As Ortellius ſpeaketh of the kingdome of Nubia, which is a part of AffricaAfrica, That it was in time paſt imbued with Chriſtian religion, and yet at this …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 238 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reproues them, ſo it reproues the Donatiſtes, that would haue no Church, but in AffricaAfrica, no Church but theirs; ſomewhat like vnto the humour of the Separatiſts at this …
With rule
… reproues them, ſo it reproues the Donatiſtes, that would haue no Church, but in AffricaAfrica, no Church but theirs; ſomewhat like vnto the humour of the Separatiſts at this …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… illusions. For why should not the same saints memories bée honored with myracles in AffricaAfrica, as well as in Italie? For it was not to places, but to persons …
With rule
… illusions. For why should not the same saints memories bée honored with myracles in AffricaAfrica, as well as in Italie? For it was not to places, but to persons …
Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is to beholde. Marke alſo the other parte of the world, to wit, AffricaAfrica, which is in the ſame order. And as concerning Europa (which men call Chriſtendom …
With rule
… it is to beholde. Marke alſo the other parte of the world, to wit, AffricaAfrica, which is in the ſame order. And as concerning Europa (which men call Chriſtendom …
John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… title of the Vniuersall Church b…longeth, hath no better grace, then if Asia, AffricaAfrica, and Europe, which are parts of the vniuersall world, should dispute among themselues to …
With rule
… title of the Vniuersall Church b…longeth, hath no better grace, then if Asia, AffricaAfrica, and Europe, which are parts of the vniuersall world, should dispute among themselues to …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The removing of the ſeven Churches in Aſia, brought the Goſpel to Europe and AffricaAfrica. During the ten cruel perſecutions of the Heathen Emperors, the Chriſtian faith was ſpread …
With rule
… The removing of the ſeven Churches in Aſia, brought the Goſpel to Europe and AffricaAfrica. During the ten cruel perſecutions of the Heathen Emperors, the Chriſtian faith was ſpread …
Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · p. 399 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Integrity. He has viewed whatſoever was worth his Obſervation both in Aſia and AffricaAfrica, and carefully denoted the manners and Religions of People, writing nothing till ſuch time …
With rule
… and Integrity. He has viewed whatſoever was worth his Obſervation both in Aſia and AffricaAfrica, and carefully denoted the manners and Religions of People, writing nothing till ſuch time …
Jean Claude · The Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.