Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7453 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bablesbabbles

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 144 times in 118 works
Consistency: 87.8% (144 of 164)
Reach if approved: ~172 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: babbles
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (144 changes in 118 works, 87.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 144)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
They be bablesbabbles for fooles to play withall, and not for Gods children: then Boner and Mordant …
With rule
They be bablesbabbles for fooles to play withall, and not for Gods children: then Boner and Mordant …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… been ſo common: by reaſon that it hath ſo many player-like toyes and bablesbabbles of ſights to bleare the eye, and ſonets to deceiue the eare, that it …
With rule
… been ſo common: by reaſon that it hath ſo many player-like toyes and bablesbabbles of ſights to bleare the eye, and ſonets to deceiue the eare, that it …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 514 · Open in the reader
Printed
Amazement flies theſe bablesbabbles, and does pin
With rule
Amazement flies theſe bablesbabbles, and does pin
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in making her a great Ladie of stately port: feed the peoples eyes with bablesbabbles, & their eares with fables: for (to make thēselues in this case Iudges of themselues …
With rule
… in making her a great Ladie of stately port: feed the peoples eyes with bablesbabbles, & their eares with fables: for (to make thēselues in this case Iudges of themselues …
John Boys · Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… of true prayer, and the powerfull preaching of the worde, he gaue them those bablesbabbles to play withall, and made them beleeue that he was afraid of them.
With rule
… of true prayer, and the powerfull preaching of the worde, he gaue them those bablesbabbles to play withall, and made them beleeue that he was afraid of them.
William Burton · An Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſo bold / as to delude the worlde in ſo great light / wyth ſuche bablesbabbles as thys? doth he thinke that the author of theſe bokes of hierarchies / being …
With rule
… be ſo bold / as to delude the worlde in ſo great light / wyth ſuche bablesbabbles as thys? doth he thinke that the author of theſe bokes of hierarchies / being …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any prescription, commaundement or allowance of God, in his holy Scriptures, such are these bablesbabbles, they call their Agnus Dei, Hallowed graines, hallowed beades, cōming from his owne holinesse …
With rule
… any prescription, commaundement or allowance of God, in his holy Scriptures, such are these bablesbabbles, they call their Agnus Dei, Hallowed graines, hallowed beades, cōming from his owne holinesse …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the power to men uncapable; denouncing it against the good; Abusing of it to bablesbabbles, and trifles; We have no time: Let this suffice that their practise in these …
With rule
… the power to men uncapable; denouncing it against the good; Abusing of it to bablesbabbles, and trifles; We have no time: Let this suffice that their practise in these …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 284 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Christian Disputations A14461

Printed
BablesBabbles of fooles. 8.
With rule
BablesBabbles of fooles. 8.
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 108 · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… attended with all Her heavenly traine, tread down triumphantly before you still, the painted BablesBabbles and Babels of al transitory glory, and ungodly greatnesse; hold still fresh and flourishing …
With rule
… attended with all Her heavenly traine, tread down triumphantly before you still, the painted BablesBabbles and Babels of al transitory glory, and ungodly greatnesse; hold still fresh and flourishing …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · Open in the reader
Printed
… upon the world, set out in the gaudiest manner with all her baites and BablesBabbles of riches, honours, favours, greatnesse, pleasures, &c. as upon an unsavoury rotten Carrion: Thou …
With rule
… upon the world, set out in the gaudiest manner with all her baites and BablesBabbles of riches, honours, favours, greatnesse, pleasures, &c. as upon an unsavoury rotten Carrion: Thou …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 293 · Open in the reader

Three Propositions A17727

Printed
… North, Cutbert Maines practiſes in the weſt, the cōtinual ſending ouer of Buls and BablesBabbles, beſides a woonderfull number not onely of old ſubtil foxes and cruel wolues, which …
With rule
… North, Cutbert Maines practiſes in the weſt, the cōtinual ſending ouer of Buls and BablesBabbles, beſides a woonderfull number not onely of old ſubtil foxes and cruel wolues, which …
John Calvin · Three Propositions · Open in the reader