Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12180 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hapnedhappened

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

Puritas changed it: 1,515 times in 563 works
Consistency: 100% (1,515 of 1,515)
Reach if approved: ~1,592 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: happened
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,515 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,515 changes in 563 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,515)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by their peace, as the Apostle saith of his owne troubles, the things which hapnedhappened vnto me, haue fallen out rather to the furtherance of the Gospell, Phil. 1. 12.
With rule
… by their peace, as the Apostle saith of his owne troubles, the things which hapnedhappened vnto me, haue fallen out rather to the furtherance of the Gospell, Phil. 1. 12.
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the high way, which neuer did good al his life long, sauyng that he hapnedhappened once by chaūce to come into a Churche vpon Candlemas day▪ wher, seyng the …
With rule
… the high way, which neuer did good al his life long, sauyng that he hapnedhappened once by chaūce to come into a Churche vpon Candlemas day▪ wher, seyng the …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… enuenoms the flocke. Thus you haue the troubles, which in the aforesaid foure yeares, hapnedhappened in Norfolke and Suffolke, hauing shewed certaine notable examples, sufficient to declare the rest …
With rule
… enuenoms the flocke. Thus you haue the troubles, which in the aforesaid foure yeares, hapnedhappened in Norfolke and Suffolke, hauing shewed certaine notable examples, sufficient to declare the rest …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. What hapnedhappened then?
With rule
Q. What hapnedhappened then?
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dooing it, then kéepe himselfe cléere from committing that fault: yet so it hath hapnedhappened to me at this present, yelding shal I say thereto, or refusing it, surely …
With rule
… dooing it, then kéepe himselfe cléere from committing that fault: yet so it hath hapnedhappened to me at this present, yelding shal I say thereto, or refusing it, surely …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 681 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet drowne, Simil. or their Ship may be burnt with fire, as often hath hapnedhappened; and ſurer then the Harts, or wild Aſſe in the woods and mountaines, or …
With rule
… yet drowne, Simil. or their Ship may be burnt with fire, as often hath hapnedhappened; and ſurer then the Harts, or wild Aſſe in the woods and mountaines, or …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many of them might haue been liuing at this day, if they had not hapnedhappened into this murtherers company.
With rule
… many of them might haue been liuing at this day, if they had not hapnedhappened into this murtherers company.
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… auctors. And that eyther by that meanes, or by some other meanes, corruption hath hapnedhappened to al copies that at this day are extant, both Greeke & Latine, in naming …
With rule
… auctors. And that eyther by that meanes, or by some other meanes, corruption hath hapnedhappened to al copies that at this day are extant, both Greeke & Latine, in naming …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 39 · 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.