Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12107 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

speachespeech

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

Puritas changed it: 780 times in 156 works
Consistency: 99.7% (780 of 782)
Reach if approved: ~822 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: speech
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 782 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (780 changes in 156 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 780)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
It is a common speachespeech amongest the people and muche vsed, that they saye, all religious houses are pulled …
With rule
It is a common speachespeech amongest the people and muche vsed, that they saye, all religious houses are pulled …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
S. Iohn in this place forbyddethe no more gentle speachespeech & louynge communicacion, thā S. Paule in your other flour dyd forbyd to make prouision …
With rule
S. Iohn in this place forbyddethe no more gentle speachespeech & louynge communicacion, thā S. Paule in your other flour dyd forbyd to make prouision …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lorde to protracte that iudgement as long as mighte be, as appeareth by this ſpeachespeech of the Diuels, why dyddeſt thou come to torment vs before the time: ſo …
With rule
… Lorde to protracte that iudgement as long as mighte be, as appeareth by this ſpeachespeech of the Diuels, why dyddeſt thou come to torment vs before the time: ſo …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seameth to commaund a wicked or an vngodlye thing / wherfore it is a figuratiue speachespeech / commaundinge to haue communion and felowshippe with Christes passion / and deuoutelye and wholesomelie to …
With rule
… seameth to commaund a wicked or an vngodlye thing / wherfore it is a figuratiue speachespeech / commaundinge to haue communion and felowshippe with Christes passion / and deuoutelye and wholesomelie to …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… holynes, of righteouſnes, and all other chriſtian vertues. The reaſon of this forme of ſpeachespeech in ſcripture is, becauſe of the double uſe and benefit both of Chriſt himſelf …
With rule
… holynes, of righteouſnes, and all other chriſtian vertues. The reaſon of this forme of ſpeachespeech in ſcripture is, becauſe of the double uſe and benefit both of Chriſt himſelf …
John Forbes · A Fruitful Sermon · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beside his plaine wordes, do declare. This saying hee affirmeth to be a figuratiue speachespeech, Thou shalt heape burning coales on his head, which he doeth thus interprete: Vt …
With rule
… beside his plaine wordes, do declare. This saying hee affirmeth to be a figuratiue speachespeech, Thou shalt heape burning coales on his head, which he doeth thus interprete: Vt …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 534 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the spirit of God. For further confirmation whereof, we may note the manner of speachespeech, where he sayth, Quench not the spirit. We do commonly say, the fire is …
With rule
… the spirit of God. For further confirmation whereof, we may note the manner of speachespeech, where he sayth, Quench not the spirit. We do commonly say, the fire is …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
I ſay you muſt mende your vnproper ſpeachespeech, that Chriſt and Antichriſt is there ioyned togeather, you meane Chriſt, and ſome outward …
With rule
I ſay you muſt mende your vnproper ſpeachespeech, that Chriſt and Antichriſt is there ioyned togeather, you meane Chriſt, and ſome outward …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies A04901

Printed
… the right of our workes, grounding his reaſon vppon the phraſe and fourme of SpeacheSpeech, which the Scripture vſeth in this matter, when the righteouſneſſe euen of Abraham and …
With rule
… the right of our workes, grounding his reaſon vppon the phraſe and fourme of SpeacheSpeech, which the Scripture vſeth in this matter, when the righteouſneſſe euen of Abraham and …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 48 · Open in the reader

The Whole Sum of Christian Religion A17244

Printed
… or opening him ſelfe to be knowen of others; who therfore is called the SpeacheSpeech, the Image, and the Sonne of the Father. The thirde of the holy Ghoſt …
With rule
… or opening him ſelfe to be knowen of others; who therfore is called the SpeacheSpeech, the Image, and the Sonne of the Father. The thirde of the holy Ghoſt …
Edmund Bunny · The Whole Sum of Christian Religion · Open in the reader