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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7167 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

camellcamel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
317 times in 225 works
Consistency
100% (317 of 317)
Reach if approved
~333 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: camel
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
317 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (317 changes in 225 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 317)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … into blood, & bread into fleſh, than they can commaund a gnat to become a camellcamel: for it is a greater worke to make God, than to make the world …
    With rule
    … into blood, & bread into fleſh, than they can commaund a gnat to become a camellcamel: for it is a greater worke to make God, than to make the world …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it is as muche healpe vnto the sedes as it was ease for the CamellCamel whenns the Flye leapt of from his backe.
    With rule
    … it is as muche healpe vnto the sedes as it was ease for the CamellCamel whenns the Flye leapt of from his backe.

    William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … taken, in conversing with them; It may well be said, the passing of a CamellCamel thorow a needels eye: exceeding hard, if not altogether impossible, to escape untainted.
    With rule
    … taken, in conversing with them; It may well be said, the passing of a CamellCamel thorow a needels eye: exceeding hard, if not altogether impossible, to escape untainted.

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … religion. Yet our Sauiour Chriſt telleth vs, that It is as eaſie for a CamellCamel to goe through the eye of a needle, as for a rich man to …
    With rule
    … religion. Yet our Sauiour Chriſt telleth vs, that It is as eaſie for a CamellCamel to goe through the eye of a needle, as for a rich man to …

    Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … godly and ſimply through the Scripture in caſe of Religion, as to drive a camellcamel through the eye of a needle. And againe he ſaith, The primitiue Church had …
    With rule
    … godly and ſimply through the Scripture in caſe of Religion, as to drive a camellcamel through the eye of a needle. And againe he ſaith, The primitiue Church had …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſhoulde checke and rebuke the greate beame that is in theire eye, nor the CamellCamel that they haue ſwallowed downe: But on the contrary…, that the blemyſhes ſo apparaunte …
    With rule
    … ſhoulde checke and rebuke the greate beame that is in theire eye, nor the CamellCamel that they haue ſwallowed downe: But on the contrary…, that the blemyſhes ſo apparaunte …

    Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … rich man cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven: It is easier for a CamellCamel to goe through the eye of a needle, than for him to enter into …
    With rule
    … rich man cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven: It is easier for a CamellCamel to goe through the eye of a needle, than for him to enter into …

    John Preston · Four Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is as hard to drawe a rich man to Chriſt, as to draw a CamellCamel thorowe a needles eye. To draw a great body thorow a needles eye, is …
    With rule
    … is as hard to drawe a rich man to Chriſt, as to draw a CamellCamel thorowe a needles eye. To draw a great body thorow a needles eye, is …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 243 · 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.