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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7046 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pratlingprattling

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
150 times in 114 works
Consistency
93.7% (150 of 160)
Reach if approved
~168 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: prattling
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (150 changes in 114 works, 93.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 150)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to the fruits of their faith & mortification of vaine fleſhly luſts, through ye prophane pratlingprattling of ſuch worldly belly Gods: beléeue not them, but beléeue Ieſus Chriſt, who telleth …
    With rule
    … to the fruits of their faith & mortification of vaine fleſhly luſts, through ye prophane pratlingprattling of ſuch worldly belly Gods: beléeue not them, but beléeue Ieſus Chriſt, who telleth …

    George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Chriſt, you can never doe it. It is true, if it were nothing but pratlingprattling and profeſſing, and yet to ſtand in open oppoſition to the power of grace …
    With rule
    … Chriſt, you can never doe it. It is true, if it were nothing but pratlingprattling and profeſſing, and yet to ſtand in open oppoſition to the power of grace …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 208 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … learned note it to be vndoubtedly forged in his name by a coosining and pratlingprattling marchant, as the which hath nothing in it of S. Ambrose.
    With rule
    … learned note it to be vndoubtedly forged in his name by a coosining and pratlingprattling marchant, as the which hath nothing in it of S. Ambrose.

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    I'me a Divine, not a fond pratlingprattling Poet,
    With rule
    I'me a Divine, not a fond pratlingprattling Poet,

    Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … seat of the scornfull, he will, as Augustus Caesar once, tax the whole world, pratlingprattling of Priest and Clerke, yea Prince and people, censuring all hee knoweth, often more …
    With rule
    … seat of the scornfull, he will, as Augustus Caesar once, tax the whole world, pratlingprattling of Priest and Clerke, yea Prince and people, censuring all hee knoweth, often more …

    John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … much that euen their Shrift is put among their woorkes of satisfaction. Againe the pratlingprattling of some Paternosters, the babling before a Puppet, the chaunting of some Masse, the …
    With rule
    … much that euen their Shrift is put among their woorkes of satisfaction. Againe the pratlingprattling of some Paternosters, the babling before a Puppet, the chaunting of some Masse, the …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 939 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for heere from the 7. of December vntill the 14. of Ianuary, he will haue me pratlingprattling to my auditory that Sathan lurketh ſometimes about one, & that ſathan wold not giue …
    With rule
    … for heere from the 7. of December vntill the 14. of Ianuary, he will haue me pratlingprattling to my auditory that Sathan lurketh ſometimes about one, & that ſathan wold not giue …

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    As for that passage, of Souldiers bawling in the fields, Coblers pratlingprattling in Tubs in stead of preaching,
    With rule
    As for that passage, of Souldiers bawling in the fields, Coblers pratlingprattling in Tubs in stead of preaching,

    Edward Bowles · Manifest Truth · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

  • Printed
    … vntimely, & pernicious ſpeeches, & ſuch as giue offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are PratlingPrattling, fooliſh prating, and treacherie. PratlingPrattling, is, not to be able to keepe cloſe any …
    With rule
    … vntimely, & pernicious ſpeeches, & ſuch as giue offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are PratlingPrattling, fooliſh prating, and treacherie. PratlingPrattling, is, not to be able to keepe cloſe any …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 997 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … giue offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are PratlingPrattling, fooliſh prating, and treacherie. PratlingPrattling, is, not to be able to keepe cloſe any thing. Fooliſh Prating, or futilitie …
    With rule
    … giue offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are PratlingPrattling, fooliſh prating, and treacherie. PratlingPrattling, is, not to be able to keepe cloſe any thing. Fooliſh Prating, or futilitie …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 997 · Open in the reader

Daily Sermons Upon Jonah A17683

  • Printed
    … ſorcerer, when he ceaſed not to peruert the wayes of the Lord▪ It followeth: PratlingPrattling against vs with malicious wordes. That is, ſclaundering and ſpeaking euyll againſt vs. So …
    With rule
    … ſorcerer, when he ceaſed not to peruert the wayes of the Lord▪ It followeth: PratlingPrattling against vs with malicious wordes. That is, ſclaundering and ſpeaking euyll againſt vs. So …

    John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

  • Printed
    PratlingPrattling Fooles,
    With rule
    PratlingPrattling Fooles,

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 60 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

  • Printed
    … proof thereof. 3. Another Characteriſtical Symbol, under which Pythagoras couched a reproof againſt Sloathful, or PratlingPrattling Scholars was this. [Receive not a Swallow into your houſe] i. e. ſaith Iamblichus …
    With rule
    … proof thereof. 3. Another Characteriſtical Symbol, under which Pythagoras couched a reproof againſt Sloathful, or PratlingPrattling Scholars was this. [Receive not a Swallow into your houſe] i. e. ſaith Iamblichus …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 167 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion A64611

  • Printed
    … pernicious ſpeeches, and ſuch as give offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are, PratlingPrattling, Fooliſh prating, and Treachery. PratlingPrattling, is not to be able to keep cloſe any …
    With rule
    … pernicious ſpeeches, and ſuch as give offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are, PratlingPrattling, Fooliſh prating, and Treachery. PratlingPrattling, is not to be able to keep cloſe any …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 612 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … give offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are, PratlingPrattling, Fooliſh prating, and Treachery. PratlingPrattling, is not to be able to keep cloſe any thing, but revealeth all things …
    With rule
    … give offence. The extremes hereof, in the defect, are, PratlingPrattling, Fooliſh prating, and Treachery. PratlingPrattling, is not to be able to keep cloſe any thing, but revealeth all things …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 612 · Open in the reader