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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8804 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scummescum

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

Puritas changed it
188 times in 136 works
Consistency
97.9% (188 of 192)
Reach if approved
~202 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: scum
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
192 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (188 changes in 136 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 188)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … finde, no eaſement it can haue, no contentment can be giuen it, vntill the ſcummescum and froth of all the ſinnes that euer it was defiled with, be brought …
    With rule
    … finde, no eaſement it can haue, no contentment can be giuen it, vntill the ſcummescum and froth of all the ſinnes that euer it was defiled with, be brought …

    Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … which professed himselfe a Prophet sent of God; who gathered an armie of the scummescum of all Nations, whereby he filled Asia with bloud and slaughter, both of Christians …
    With rule
    … which professed himselfe a Prophet sent of God; who gathered an armie of the scummescum of all Nations, whereby he filled Asia with bloud and slaughter, both of Christians …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … whom you hate, and despise, and persecute, and defame, and account as the very scummescum of the people, and the refuse and off-scouring of all things; to whom …
    With rule
    … whom you hate, and despise, and persecute, and defame, and account as the very scummescum of the people, and the refuse and off-scouring of all things; to whom …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 354 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … like a fire under a Veſſell of water) boyles out and purgeth away the ſcummescum.
    With rule
    … like a fire under a Veſſell of water) boyles out and purgeth away the ſcummescum.

    Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … evill perſons; and where there are many pots boyling, there cannot but be much ſcummescum: ſo that a man ſhall finde it, either impoſſible, or hard, never to be …
    With rule
    … evill perſons; and where there are many pots boyling, there cannot but be much ſcummescum: ſo that a man ſhall finde it, either impoſſible, or hard, never to be …

    Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 795 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bee carnall, and to walke as men? yea what doe we more, then the ſcummescum of the World? for ſo were the Publicans, and Toll-gatherers, at the leaſt …
    With rule
    … bee carnall, and to walke as men? yea what doe we more, then the ſcummescum of the World? for ſo were the Publicans, and Toll-gatherers, at the leaſt …

    John Carter · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … bu…lt: our adverſaries to ſhoulder it up, doe ſcrape together the moſt excrementall ſcummescum of the Fathers, like to the carraine-Crowes that forſake trees beautified with delicious …
    With rule
    … bu…lt: our adverſaries to ſhoulder it up, doe ſcrape together the moſt excrementall ſcummescum of the Fathers, like to the carraine-Crowes that forſake trees beautified with delicious …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · A Learned Treatise of Traditions · p. 354 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vp. It troubles the braine, like vndigested meate in the stomach: or like the scummescum that seeths into the broth. To auoyd this follie, Paul fortbids vs to be …
    With rule
    … vp. It troubles the braine, like vndigested meate in the stomach: or like the scummescum that seeths into the broth. To auoyd this follie, Paul fortbids vs to be …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 72 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.