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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7925 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hoggeshogs

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

Puritas changed it
217 times in 157 works
Consistency
99.5% (217 of 218)
Reach if approved
~229 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hogs
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
218 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (217 changes in 157 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 217)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Because the hoggeshogs and the Cow died, are you sure the Cat did kil them, might they …
    With rule
    Because the hoggeshogs and the Cow died, are you sure the Cat did kil them, might they …

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be dogges; but such are meant by our Sauiour Christ to be dogges and hoggeshogs, who hauing the continuall meanes either breake into the contempt of the things themselues …
    With rule
    … be dogges; but such are meant by our Sauiour Christ to be dogges and hoggeshogs, who hauing the continuall meanes either breake into the contempt of the things themselues …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 837 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … they grow as prophane as the rest; and yet all this while they are hoggeshogs, and will murmur at others that are more holy then themselves; Now the dogge …
    With rule
    … they grow as prophane as the rest; and yet all this while they are hoggeshogs, and will murmur at others that are more holy then themselves; Now the dogge …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vnto vs, you were dogs and might not ea… the childrens breade, you were hoggeshogs, and might not haue these pretious pearls cast vnto … you were as vncircumcised P …
    With rule
    … vnto vs, you were dogs and might not ea… the childrens breade, you were hoggeshogs, and might not haue these pretious pearls cast vnto … you were as vncircumcised P …

    William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … hogs nor to gyue that is holy to dogs, nether is it lawful for hoggeshogs to touch pearles, nor dogs to taste y• is holi. If thei wer punished …
    With rule
    … hogs nor to gyue that is holy to dogs, nether is it lawful for hoggeshogs to touch pearles, nor dogs to taste y• is holi. If thei wer punished …

    Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vnbelieuers It is our Fathers houſe, where is bread inough; without is nothing but hoggeshogs meat. Out of the circle of the Church raines nothing but fire and brimſtone …
    With rule
    … vnbelieuers It is our Fathers houſe, where is bread inough; without is nothing but hoggeshogs meat. Out of the circle of the Church raines nothing but fire and brimſtone …

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … would now be made perfect by the flesh: made you such account of your hoggeshogs, that for them you request Christ to depart from your coasts.
    With rule
    … would now be made perfect by the flesh: made you such account of your hoggeshogs, that for them you request Christ to depart from your coasts.

    John Rainolds · The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened and Applied · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … securitie, harlots and sycophants rifle his estate, and then send him to robbe the hoggeshogs of their prouander, Ioues nuts, acornes. In short time he is dismounted from his …
    With rule
    … securitie, harlots and sycophants rifle his estate, and then send him to robbe the hoggeshogs of their prouander, Ioues nuts, acornes. In short time he is dismounted from his …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.