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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11015 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

māman

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
6,540 times in 710 works
Consistency
99.7% (6,540 of 6,558)
Reach if approved
~7,092 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6,750 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
mā (18)
Taken into joins
185 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,540 changes in 710 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,540)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … matter, of whose substance they are not, namely, to my meeting with the other māman, for talking of our businesse, therefore the towne of Barwick, and the tenth day …
    With rule
    … matter, of whose substance they are not, namely, to my meeting with the other māman, for talking of our businesse, therefore the towne of Barwick, and the tenth day …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … then he / the spirit neuer vtterly departeth againe / for then yt were impossible that māman should be renewed Mat. 1.2.31. Heb. 10.26 and 6.4.
    With rule
    … then he / the spirit neuer vtterly departeth againe / for then yt were impossible that māman should be renewed Mat. 1.2.31. Heb. 10.26 and 6.4.

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … this is a prey somewhat answerable to the voracity of their throats. Let euery māman, of what profession soeuer, necessary or superfluous; be he a member or scabbe of …
    With rule
    … this is a prey somewhat answerable to the voracity of their throats. Let euery māman, of what profession soeuer, necessary or superfluous; be he a member or scabbe of …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … regard. Peraduenture the reader may be ſuch a one, as if I were a māman of ſome marke, with my word I ſhould carie him away, although I brought …
    With rule
    … regard. Peraduenture the reader may be ſuch a one, as if I were a māman of ſome marke, with my word I ſhould carie him away, although I brought …

    Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … preferred generall councels before the P. now being P. he did decrée, that no māman ſhould appeale from the B. of Rome to any councels: & likewiſe for prieſts mariages …
    With rule
    … preferred generall councels before the P. now being P. he did decrée, that no māman ſhould appeale from the B. of Rome to any councels: & likewiſe for prieſts mariages …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 385 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of God, is that we may learne and vnderstand, that as the wrath of māman wherwith we are acquainted is not pacified but by two meanes, either by reconciliatiō …
    With rule
    … of God, is that we may learne and vnderstand, that as the wrath of māman wherwith we are acquainted is not pacified but by two meanes, either by reconciliatiō …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that he woulde haue no crosse, no crucifixe, nor image in the Church. A māman would thinke this were sufficient euidence, when hee sayeth: Cùm ergo hoc vidissem in …
    With rule
    … that he woulde haue no crosse, no crucifixe, nor image in the Church. A māman would thinke this were sufficient euidence, when hee sayeth: Cùm ergo hoc vidissem in …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſecret, what dooth waſh (if anie thing be to be that way regarded in māman)? he anſwereth it is as to ſay, Quid ſi nunc coelum ruat? What if …
    With rule
    … ſecret, what dooth waſh (if anie thing be to be that way regarded in māman)? he anſwereth it is as to ſay, Quid ſi nunc coelum ruat? What if …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 56 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.