Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8254 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mylkemilk

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

Puritas changed it: 79 times in 57 works
Consistency: 97.5% (79 of 81)
Reach if approved: ~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: milk
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 57 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… their ploughe and for cariage of thinges to the markets, and kine for their mylkemilk and chese, whych they must lyue vpon & pay theyr …. These cattell must haue pasture …
With rule
… their ploughe and for cariage of thinges to the markets, and kine for their mylkemilk and chese, whych they must lyue vpon & pay theyr …. These cattell must haue pasture …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… lande of seruitude and bondage, and bring thē into the land that floweth wyth mylkemilk and honye. Lette the babling Babilonians kepe thy seruauntes no longer in captiuity but …
With rule
… lande of seruitude and bondage, and bring thē into the land that floweth wyth mylkemilk and honye. Lette the babling Babilonians kepe thy seruauntes no longer in captiuity but …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. lxxi · Open in the reader
Printed
… meate wherewith men are nourished. For mothers féede not their children, being growne, with mylkemilk out of theyr brestes.
With rule
… meate wherewith men are nourished. For mothers féede not their children, being growne, with mylkemilk out of theyr brestes.
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the mothers mylkemilk shoulde be muche more naturall for the childe, than the mylkemilk of a straunger.
With rule
… that the mothers mylkemilk shoulde be muche more naturall for the childe, than the mylkemilk of a straunger.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the fruite thereof? Or who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylkemilk thereof? Surely he bringeth foorth theſe ſimilitudes very finely and properly applied vnto them …
With rule
… of the fruite thereof? Or who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylkemilk thereof? Surely he bringeth foorth theſe ſimilitudes very finely and properly applied vnto them …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 1121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… church: out of whoſe plentifull Dugs wee doo daily ſucke, the ſwéete, pleaſant, & healthſome mylkemilk that feedeth vs vnto euerlaſting lyfe.
With rule
… church: out of whoſe plentifull Dugs wee doo daily ſucke, the ſwéete, pleaſant, & healthſome mylkemilk that feedeth vs vnto euerlaſting lyfe.
Robert Crowley · Answer to a Popish Antichristian Catholic · Open in the reader
Printed
… kynde of ſweate, whiche Plutarche affirmeth, but ſome do thinke, that euen as from mylkemilk is ſeperated whay, ſo alſo a watriſh humour is ſeparated from bloud, wherof the …
With rule
… kynde of ſweate, whiche Plutarche affirmeth, but ſome do thinke, that euen as from mylkemilk is ſeperated whay, ſo alſo a watriſh humour is ſeparated from bloud, wherof the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as S. Peter sayth, Like new borne babes, to desire the sweete and sinceere mylkemilk of the worde, that thereby the graces they haue, may be increased, and their …
With rule
… as S. Peter sayth, Like new borne babes, to desire the sweete and sinceere mylkemilk of the worde, that thereby the graces they haue, may be increased, and their …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.