Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11217 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

béebe

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

Puritas changed it: 6,936 times in 160 works
Consistency: 100% (6,936 of 6,936)
Reach if approved: ~7,288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: been
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 6,936 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,936 changes in 160 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,936)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as gladly let passe things not necessarie & of small moment, as other men coulde béebe content to haue them buried. Well, for inuocation it self ether of Aungels or …
With rule
… as gladly let passe things not necessarie & of small moment, as other men coulde béebe content to haue them buried. Well, for inuocation it self ether of Aungels or …
Laurence Tomson · Answer to Assertions of Fecknam · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… either too marke other mens Uices, or enuy their Uertues. Then if any moate béebe in our Brothers eyes which néedeth our helpe, wée may so minister vntoo him …
With rule
… either too marke other mens Uices, or enuy their Uertues. Then if any moate béebe in our Brothers eyes which néedeth our helpe, wée may so minister vntoo him …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to themselues. Wilt thou know, thou father, howe thou maiest haue that blessing to béebe the blessed father of a blessed séede? wilt thou know, thou mother, howe to …
With rule
… to themselues. Wilt thou know, thou father, howe thou maiest haue that blessing to béebe the blessed father of a blessed séede? wilt thou know, thou mother, howe to …
Richard Greenham · Godly Exhortation and Fruitful Admonition to Virtuous Parents · Open in the reader
Printed
… rodde of chaſticement. And the Lorde ſayde vnto Moyſes, I haue appoynted thée to béebe the God of Pharao, and Aaron thy Brother ſhall be thy Prophet, thou ſhalte …
With rule
… rodde of chaſticement. And the Lorde ſayde vnto Moyſes, I haue appoynted thée to béebe the God of Pharao, and Aaron thy Brother ſhall be thy Prophet, thou ſhalte …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſame in heauen ſhall perfit béebe.
With rule
The ſame in heauen ſhall perfit béebe.
Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fornication, but the chiefeſt and greateſt vices that bee, as Idolacrie, and Hereſies, whiche béebe reſiaūt not in the Bodie onely, but rather in the Reaſon. Note therefore, that …
With rule
… Fornication, but the chiefeſt and greateſt vices that bee, as Idolacrie, and Hereſies, whiche béebe reſiaūt not in the Bodie onely, but rather in the Reaſon. Note therefore, that …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Because that only he is vnchaungeable, and it is méete that there should alway béebe some difference betwéene the Creator, and the things created; betwéene all, and nothing. Plato …
With rule
… Because that only he is vnchaungeable, and it is méete that there should alway béebe some difference betwéene the Creator, and the things created; betwéene all, and nothing. Plato …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the other, Gal. 5. & therfore, as the fyndyng of & doubting of ſinnes in your ſelfe béebe ſure argumentes, that the fleſhe is in the fielde, ſo be theſe as certaine …
With rule
… the other, Gal. 5. & therfore, as the fyndyng of & doubting of ſinnes in your ſelfe béebe ſure argumentes, that the fleſhe is in the fielde, ſo be theſe as certaine …
Thomas Sparke · To All Christians Troubled and Disquieted · 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.