Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10842 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

delphosDelphi

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 286 times in 164 works
Consistency: 99.6% (286 of 287)
Reach if approved: ~302 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 287 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (286 changes in 164 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 286)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Citizens: and that Anaxagoras with much adoo eſcaped the like: that the men of DelphosDelphi threw downe Aeſope off an high Rock, and brake his necke: that Octauius Caeſar …
With rule
… Citizens: and that Anaxagoras with much adoo eſcaped the like: that the men of DelphosDelphi threw downe Aeſope off an high Rock, and brake his necke: that Octauius Caeſar …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had a great hand in burning the City; or have rob'd the Temple at DelphosDelphi; or however that of Tholouse. But I relieved my self against that Suspicion, by …
With rule
… had a great hand in burning the City; or have rob'd the Temple at DelphosDelphi; or however that of Tholouse. But I relieved my self against that Suspicion, by …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 468 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had any money, & after they went from him, he went & consulted the oracle at DelphosDelphi, & there had this oracle, as our author rendereth the words of Pythias.
With rule
… had any money, & after they went from him, he went & consulted the oracle at DelphosDelphi, & there had this oracle, as our author rendereth the words of Pythias.
John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Senators or Legates that they sent yeere by yeere to the common Councell at DelphosDelphi; and their ordinary Senators, or their Councell of fiue hundred, taken out of their …
With rule
… Senators or Legates that they sent yeere by yeere to the common Councell at DelphosDelphi; and their ordinary Senators, or their Councell of fiue hundred, taken out of their …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… content thus to have kept a key of ſome cel in Appollos Oracle at DelphosDelphi, or of Baal-zebubs tēple in Ekron where you might dayly have heard the …
With rule
… content thus to have kept a key of ſome cel in Appollos Oracle at DelphosDelphi, or of Baal-zebubs tēple in Ekron where you might dayly have heard the …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seperation: they being like Apollos Oracles apt to bee expounded eyther way: or like DelphosDelphi ſword fit to be vſed for any purpoſe: for they may fit, eyther Papiſt …
With rule
… Seperation: they being like Apollos Oracles apt to bee expounded eyther way: or like DelphosDelphi ſword fit to be vſed for any purpoſe: for they may fit, eyther Papiſt …
John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such was the Pythonisse at Philippi, Act. 16. and at the oracle of Apollo at DelphosDelphi.
With rule
… such was the Pythonisse at Philippi, Act. 16. and at the oracle of Apollo at DelphosDelphi.
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the vviſeſt, even amongſt the Heathen, Socrates being demanded vvhy the Oracle of DelphosDelphi ſhould pronounce him the vviſeſt man of Greece, made anſvver, I know nothing, but …
With rule
… of the vviſeſt, even amongſt the Heathen, Socrates being demanded vvhy the Oracle of DelphosDelphi ſhould pronounce him the vviſeſt man of Greece, made anſvver, I know nothing, but …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 650 · 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.