Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6958 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

barrellbarrel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 277 times in 178 works
Consistency: 100% (277 of 277)
Reach if approved: ~291 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: barrel
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 277 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (277 changes in 178 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 277)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… an empty heart could not bee discerned so well: as wee know an empty barrellbarrel by the sound, so wee may discerne whether there be this emptinesse in men …
With rule
… an empty heart could not bee discerned so well: as wee know an empty barrellbarrel by the sound, so wee may discerne whether there be this emptinesse in men …
John Preston · The Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it be ſmall, like the widdowes oile in the cruiſe and meale in the barrellbarrel; when great graces in an vnſound heart ſhall vaniſh away and come to nothing.
With rule
… it be ſmall, like the widdowes oile in the cruiſe and meale in the barrellbarrel; when great graces in an vnſound heart ſhall vaniſh away and come to nothing.
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the more remaineth; as the oyle in the cruſe and the meale in the barrellbarrel, were not waſted with ſpending, but rather increaſed.
With rule
… the more remaineth; as the oyle in the cruſe and the meale in the barrellbarrel, were not waſted with ſpending, but rather increaſed.
Thomas Taylor · Two Treatises · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was caſt in, and fell downe in it: but Eſay. 63.3. it is called a barrellbarrel or a Veſſell, in which they did caſt the wine to bee troaden. The …
With rule
… was caſt in, and fell downe in it: but Eſay. 63.3. it is called a barrellbarrel or a Veſſell, in which they did caſt the wine to bee troaden. The …
John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
With droppings of the BarrellBarrel.
With rule
With droppings of the BarrellBarrel.
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader
Printed
… If you would drinke of his wisedome, knocke by a sober question at the barrellbarrel, and you shall finde by the sound, his wits are emptie. In al companies …
With rule
… If you would drinke of his wisedome, knocke by a sober question at the barrellbarrel, and you shall finde by the sound, his wits are emptie. In al companies …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, yea within him. Delight thy ſelfe therefore in the Word of God. Now barrellbarrel up, whiles theſe cunduits of comforts be full, and the pipes do runne.
With rule
… him, yea within him. Delight thy ſelfe therefore in the Word of God. Now barrellbarrel up, whiles theſe cunduits of comforts be full, and the pipes do runne.
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
When he was burned they threw his booke into a barrellbarrel that he was burned in to be burned with him, but he threw it …
With rule
When he was burned they threw his booke into a barrellbarrel that he was burned in to be burned with him, but he threw it …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 282 · 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.