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scottesScots

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

Puritas changed it
68 times in 37 works
Consistency
91.8% (68 of 74)
Reach if approved
~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: scots
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (68 changes in 37 works, 91.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 68)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Gospell, and gaue interteinement and defence to all learned men, Germaines, Italiās, Frenchmen, ScottesScots, Spanyardes, and Polonians. Thus much saith he furthermore Iohn Bale Byshop of Ossoria in …
    With rule
    … the Gospell, and gaue interteinement and defence to all learned men, Germaines, Italiās, Frenchmen, ScottesScots, Spanyardes, and Polonians. Thus much saith he furthermore Iohn Bale Byshop of Ossoria in …

    Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    ScottesScots driuen out of Irelande. 369
    With rule
    ScottesScots driuen out of Irelande. 369

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … all youre mortall enemyes yt compaſſe you round about (ſet them all together, Frenchmē ScottesScots, Danes, Turkes) culd not haue founde or ymagined a more ready waye to deſtroy …
    With rule
    … all youre mortall enemyes yt compaſſe you round about (ſet them all together, Frenchmē ScottesScots, Danes, Turkes) culd not haue founde or ymagined a more ready waye to deſtroy …

    Henrich Bullinger · Dialogue Between the Libertine or Rebel Anabaptist and the Christian · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … God, of the Northe, and he that was wonte to defende vs from the ScottesScots, was a mysbegottē also, for hys mother was vnmarryed. And hys father in Irelande …
    With rule
    … God, of the Northe, and he that was wonte to defende vs from the ScottesScots, was a mysbegottē also, for hys mother was vnmarryed. And hys father in Irelande …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vs to battail: for it were like as whan we would fight against the ScottesScots, and hadde none other harneis, but as they apointed vnto vs. No doute yf …
    With rule
    … vs to battail: for it were like as whan we would fight against the ScottesScots, and hadde none other harneis, but as they apointed vnto vs. No doute yf …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the lowe countries to leauy mortall warre againſt her, to marrye the Queene of ScottesScots, and with her to appropriate to him ſelfe the Realmes of Englande, Scotlande, and …
    With rule
    … the lowe countries to leauy mortall warre againſt her, to marrye the Queene of ScottesScots, and with her to appropriate to him ſelfe the Realmes of Englande, Scotlande, and …

    Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … aroſe about conformitie betweene one Laurentius and the ScottesScots: Laurentius iudged and condemned the ScottesScots, that they were out of the chriſtian vnitie, becauſe their Paſſeover was diverſe; as …
    With rule
    … aroſe about conformitie betweene one Laurentius and the ScottesScots: Laurentius iudged and condemned the ScottesScots, that they were out of the chriſtian vnitie, becauſe their Paſſeover was diverſe; as …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ī al their charges they haue a cast to poll the laye people. The ScottesScots cast downe a castell of ye bysshop of dirams on ye scottysh bancke called …
    With rule
    … ī al their charges they haue a cast to poll the laye people. The ScottesScots cast downe a castell of ye bysshop of dirams on ye scottysh bancke called …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay A05547

  • Printed
    Tyll true scottesScots men, whylk was a carefull case
    With rule
    Tyll true scottesScots men, whylk was a carefull case

    David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises A07988

  • Printed
    TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT, HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE, IAMES THE SIXT, KING OF SCOTTESSCOTS, GRACE AND PEACE, &c.
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT, HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE, IAMES THE SIXT, KING OF SCOTTESSCOTS, GRACE AND PEACE, &c.

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

  • Printed
    … well be payed, excepte the commens sawe som… cause, brīg a great multitude of scottesScots vnto the english pale eth… by some bysshopes of Scotlande or by some great …
    With rule
    … well be payed, excepte the commens sawe som… cause, brīg a great multitude of scottesScots vnto the english pale eth… by some bysshopes of Scotlande or by some great …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader