Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8487 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

froggesfrogs

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

Puritas changed it: 258 times in 137 works
Consistency: 99.6% (258 of 259)
Reach if approved: ~272 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: frogs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 259 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (258 changes in 137 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 258)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were turned into serpents. These enchaunters which made the appearance of serpentes, and of froggesfrogs, & of turning water into blood, are first in that place called Mechashshephim, and then …
With rule
… were turned into serpents. These enchaunters which made the appearance of serpentes, and of froggesfrogs, & of turning water into blood, are first in that place called Mechashshephim, and then …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
I multyplyed froggesfrogs, to poyson therwith theyr foode.
With rule
I multyplyed froggesfrogs, to poyson therwith theyr foode.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… the earth with his Rod, and the earth brought foorth first venemous Flyes, next FroggesFrogs, then Grashoppers, and afterward other strange things: Wherevpon (sayth this Historiographer) there hath growen …
With rule
… the earth with his Rod, and the earth brought foorth first venemous Flyes, next FroggesFrogs, then Grashoppers, and afterward other strange things: Wherevpon (sayth this Historiographer) there hath growen …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 465 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sight. Thus Iannes and Iambres turned their roddes into serpents, before Pharaoh, and brought froggesfrogs, by deceiuing the eye, and not in truth, Exod. 7. and 8. Thus the witch of …
With rule
… sight. Thus Iannes and Iambres turned their roddes into serpents, before Pharaoh, and brought froggesfrogs, by deceiuing the eye, and not in truth, Exod. 7. and 8. Thus the witch of …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… these Spectacles, thou shouldest verily there finde a sti…king rottennesse of many accumulated FroggesFrogs; that is (as hee there expresseth himselfe in a former passage) of filthy lusts …
With rule
… these Spectacles, thou shouldest verily there finde a sti…king rottennesse of many accumulated FroggesFrogs; that is (as hee there expresseth himselfe in a former passage) of filthy lusts …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Ile of SERIPHVS, one of the Iles called CYCLADES, in the which the FroggesFrogs sette vp their heads in the Monethes of March and Aprill, but they vtter …
With rule
… the Ile of SERIPHVS, one of the Iles called CYCLADES, in the which the FroggesFrogs sette vp their heads in the Monethes of March and Aprill, but they vtter …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… turned their roddes in to serpentes and turned water in to bloude and made froggesfrogs by their inchauntmēt / so thought he that Moyses did all his myracles by the …
With rule
… turned their roddes in to serpentes and turned water in to bloude and made froggesfrogs by their inchauntmēt / so thought he that Moyses did all his myracles by the …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · p. xlv · Open in the reader
Printed
… heer the Beast and the false Prophet.) Reu. 16, 13. I saw three vncleane Spirites, like FroggesFrogs, come out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the Mouth of …
With rule
… heer the Beast and the false Prophet.) Reu. 16, 13. I saw three vncleane Spirites, like FroggesFrogs, come out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the Mouth of …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

An ABC for Laymen A15621

Printed
FRoggesFrogs was one of the great plagues, wherewith God plagued Ggipt, there was neither feelde …
With rule
FRoggesFrogs was one of the great plagues, wherewith God plagued Ggipt, there was neither feelde …
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 56 · Open in the reader