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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8242 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hoggehog

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

Puritas changed it
150 times in 101 works
Consistency
100% (150 of 150)
Reach if approved
~158 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hog
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
150 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 101 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 150)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … them not. Lo how the sicke calles, and the phisitions are at hande: the hoggehog groneth, and the whole hearde groutleth with all: the poore asse falleth, and euery …
    With rule
    … them not. Lo how the sicke calles, and the phisitions are at hande: the hoggehog groneth, and the whole hearde groutleth with all: the poore asse falleth, and euery …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … grace in thy heart, as in a chip, then (I ſay) thou art a HoggeHog and no Man, whom theſe huskes will content.
    With rule
    … grace in thy heart, as in a chip, then (I ſay) thou art a HoggeHog and no Man, whom theſe huskes will content.

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … was Sergius, whoſe name was called os porci, that is, the mouth of an hoggehog. But more neere to our matter: Platina ſheweth, that the commandement of the Emperour …
    With rule
    … was Sergius, whoſe name was called os porci, that is, the mouth of an hoggehog. But more neere to our matter: Platina ſheweth, that the commandement of the Emperour …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and this is well noted in the common prouerbe, That there is ape dronke, hoggehog dronke, and lyon dronke. For as experience teacheth, ſome beeing dronke, doo growe lyke …
    With rule
    … and this is well noted in the common prouerbe, That there is ape dronke, hoggehog dronke, and lyon dronke. For as experience teacheth, ſome beeing dronke, doo growe lyke …

    Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sentencies. Some laughes altogether, when they speake to any bodie. Some gruntes lyke a HoggeHog. Some cackels lyke a Henne, or a Iack Dawe. Some speakes as thoughe they …
    With rule
    … sentencies. Some laughes altogether, when they speake to any bodie. Some gruntes lyke a HoggeHog. Some cackels lyke a Henne, or a Iack Dawe. Some speakes as thoughe they …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his owne ſonne, hee ſaide in high diſpleaſure: Better it is to be Herods hoggehog, then his ſonne. Hee right well conſidered that ſuch ſeueritie and crueltie to the …
    With rule
    … his owne ſonne, hee ſaide in high diſpleaſure: Better it is to be Herods hoggehog, then his ſonne. Hee right well conſidered that ſuch ſeueritie and crueltie to the …

    John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 295 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … from their filthineſſe, they fruſtrate his holie worke, by defiling themſelues againe, like the hoggehog, which being waſhed returneth to wallow in the filthie puddle. Againe, they commit againſt …
    With rule
    … from their filthineſſe, they fruſtrate his holie worke, by defiling themſelues againe, like the hoggehog, which being waſhed returneth to wallow in the filthie puddle. Againe, they commit againſt …

    John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · p. 142 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … shillings; fatted with Corne, for twenty; the best Cow for twelve shillings; a fat HoggeHog of two yeares old, three sh…llings foure pence; a fat Sheepe shorne, foureteene …
    With rule
    … shillings; fatted with Corne, for twenty; the best Cow for twelve shillings; a fat HoggeHog of two yeares old, three sh…llings foure pence; a fat Sheepe shorne, foureteene …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 153 · 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.