Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7525 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lytlelittle

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 827 times in 136 works
Consistency: 99.5% (827 of 831)
Reach if approved: ~873 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: little
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 831 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (827 changes in 136 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 827)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnto him for swyfte vengeaunce vppon our owne selues for so doynge. truly we lytlelittle knowe what we do ī such customable swearinge. Therfore account we it necessary to …
With rule
… vnto him for swyfte vengeaunce vppon our owne selues for so doynge. truly we lytlelittle knowe what we do ī such customable swearinge. Therfore account we it necessary to …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… car…e to threſſhe doune mountayns and to bete them in poulder / and the lytlelittle hyls ſhalt thou dryue into duſte / thou ſhalt wenowe them / and dryue them awaye …
With rule
… car…e to threſſhe doune mountayns and to bete them in poulder / and the lytlelittle hyls ſhalt thou dryue into duſte / thou ſhalt wenowe them / and dryue them awaye …
John Johnsone · An Comfortable Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God? I woulde preache saye they, but I se so lytlelittle fruite, so lytlelittle amendmente of lyfe, that it maketh me werye. A noughty aunswere, a verye noughty …
With rule
… of God? I woulde preache saye they, but I se so lytlelittle fruite, so lytlelittle amendmente of lyfe, that it maketh me werye. A noughty aunswere, a verye noughty …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue another more earnest, wherein your detestable abhomination and your deuylish Practises, shalbe a lytlelittle better discribed and painted.
With rule
… haue another more earnest, wherein your detestable abhomination and your deuylish Practises, shalbe a lytlelittle better discribed and painted.
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… them that take hys name in vayne, or feare not to sweare for euery lytlelittle trifle by hym or by hys creatures, what is than to be sayd of …
With rule
… them that take hys name in vayne, or feare not to sweare for euery lytlelittle trifle by hym or by hys creatures, what is than to be sayd of …
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. xl · Open in the reader
Printed
… fetche the tymber, and make the morter or do suche smal… thynges, as my lytlelittle strēgthes shal be able to beare and suffer.
With rule
… fetche the tymber, and make the morter or do suche smal… thynges, as my lytlelittle strēgthes shal be able to beare and suffer.
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
But least I might obscure, your Worthie commendations with my vnlearned penne, (lytlelittle, or no thing at all emphaticall) I will rather surcease, than further to proceed …
With rule
But least I might obscure, your Worthie commendations with my vnlearned penne, (lytlelittle, or no thing at all emphaticall) I will rather surcease, than further to proceed …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely, dwellyng in lytlelittle Bryttayne streete, without Aldersgate. 1571.
With rule
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely, dwellyng in lytlelittle Bryttayne streete, without Aldersgate. 1571.
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ A02749

Printed
LytleLittle coulde I do, were ye ones from m… gone
With rule
LytleLittle coulde I do, were ye ones from m… gone
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

Printed
THE LYTLELITTLE TREAtyſe of Philo a lewe, concernynge Nobilitye. Latyned by D. Humfrey.
With rule
THE LYTLELITTLE TREAtyſe of Philo a lewe, concernynge Nobilitye. Latyned by D. Humfrey.
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Works A05537

Printed
LytleLittle I knew, tharein quhat ſuld be done
With rule
LytleLittle I knew, tharein quhat ſuld be done
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

Printed
… SAMAIAH, who wrote to Ieruſalem agaynſt Ieremy, that he ſhoulde be clapt vp in LytleLittle-eaſe, for writyng to Babel that their captiuitie ſhoulde be long. IEREMY from God …
With rule
… SAMAIAH, who wrote to Ieruſalem agaynſt Ieremy, that he ſhoulde be clapt vp in LytleLittle-eaſe, for writyng to Babel that their captiuitie ſhoulde be long. IEREMY from God …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader