Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11024 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

countreycountry

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

Puritas changed it: 19,464 times in 2,926 works
Consistency: 99.9% (19,464 of 19,470)
Reach if approved: ~20,542 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: country
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 19,550 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 72 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19,464 changes in 2,926 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19,464)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
You ſaide alſo, that if a man were forth twenty yeares in a ſtrange countreycountry, and ſhould returne home againe in the forme of a ſeruant or poore man …
With rule
You ſaide alſo, that if a man were forth twenty yeares in a ſtrange countreycountry, and ſhould returne home againe in the forme of a ſeruant or poore man …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who could imagine, that two trauellers, at that time of the yeere, in a CountreyCountry so hot as Iudea, taking an Inne of purpose for their repast, should call …
With rule
… who could imagine, that two trauellers, at that time of the yeere, in a CountreyCountry so hot as Iudea, taking an Inne of purpose for their repast, should call …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
From his heavenly CountreyCountry hee brought all good things unto us, and in our CountreyCountry endured all our …
With rule
From his heavenly CountreyCountry hee brought all good things unto us, and in our CountreyCountry endured all our …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… making hast in the handlyng of my Argument) too let passe England, my deare CountreyCountry, so fitly offeryng it selfe vntoo meé, too make mention thereof. Oflare dayes, vnder …
With rule
… making hast in the handlyng of my Argument) too let passe England, my deare CountreyCountry, so fitly offeryng it selfe vntoo meé, too make mention thereof. Oflare dayes, vnder …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and be satisfyed, although Thomas the Apostata from God, and traytour to his Prince & countreycountry will neither see nor handle them. But all these surmises he will ouerthrow with …
With rule
… and be satisfyed, although Thomas the Apostata from God, and traytour to his Prince & countreycountry will neither see nor handle them. But all these surmises he will ouerthrow with …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proofe of this point, muster vp a multitude of Examples: Abrahams leauing his owne CountreyCountry and Kindred, to wander vp and downe hee knew not whither himselfe, in hope …
With rule
… proofe of this point, muster vp a multitude of Examples: Abrahams leauing his owne CountreyCountry and Kindred, to wander vp and downe hee knew not whither himselfe, in hope …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the whole circumſtaunces of the ſtorie. God had called him out of his-nati… CountreyCountry and from his Fathers houſe into a ſtraunge lande: he had promiſed him a …
With rule
… the whole circumſtaunces of the ſtorie. God had called him out of his-nati… CountreyCountry and from his Fathers houſe into a ſtraunge lande: he had promiſed him a …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Our charge not to returne to Herod: But to goe to our owne CountreyCountry; And that by another way.
With rule
Our charge not to returne to Herod: But to goe to our owne CountreyCountry; And that by another way.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 221 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

Printed
… me, Domini mei ET PATRIAE PRODITOREM, being a Traitor both of my LORD and COUNTREYCOUNTRY? Hence in the ſame Parliament of 7. R. 2. John Walſh Eſquire Captaine of Cherburg in …
With rule
… me, Domini mei ET PATRIAE PRODITOREM, being a Traitor both of my LORD and COUNTREYCOUNTRY? Hence in the ſame Parliament of 7. R. 2. John Walſh Eſquire Captaine of Cherburg in …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 7 · Open in the reader