Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1612 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shorteshort

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 892 times in 260 works
Consistency: 99.3% (892 of 898)
Reach if approved: ~944 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: short
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 898 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (892 changes in 260 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 892)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… iudgement and howre is at hand, and he peryſheth in his diſobedience. To be ſhorteshort. The wicked contenmeth preſent obedience, and looketh not on the puniſhment to come. But …
With rule
… iudgement and howre is at hand, and he peryſheth in his diſobedience. To be ſhorteshort. The wicked contenmeth preſent obedience, and looketh not on the puniſhment to come. But …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the inwarde man is renewed day by day. For our exceading tribulation whiche is shorteshort and lyghte, prepareth an excedinge and euerlastinge weyght of glory vnto vs, while we …
With rule
… the inwarde man is renewed day by day. For our exceading tribulation whiche is shorteshort and lyghte, prepareth an excedinge and euerlastinge weyght of glory vnto vs, while we …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… may, but that we will and deſire to obey his commandementes: and to bee ſhorteshort, there is nothing that the faithfull ought to doe ſo much, as in this …
With rule
… may, but that we will and deſire to obey his commandementes: and to bee ſhorteshort, there is nothing that the faithfull ought to doe ſo much, as in this …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
… must iudge he doeth it for no harme, but to blesse her. To be shorteshort. Martials good consequent, wil make him confesse, that al the protestantes that holde vp …
With rule
… must iudge he doeth it for no harme, but to blesse her. To be shorteshort. Martials good consequent, wil make him confesse, that al the protestantes that holde vp …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alteracion of common welthes and policies, contempt of God and man: and to be ſhorteshort, all thinges turned to diſorder and confuſion. The ſeconde apparteyneth on the other parte …
With rule
… alteracion of common welthes and policies, contempt of God and man: and to be ſhorteshort, all thinges turned to diſorder and confuſion. The ſeconde apparteyneth on the other parte …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ruled the Popes, then a priuate persone durst, and could thus within so shorteshort a space as fourty dayes, driue out the other, and kepe the place him …
With rule
… and ruled the Popes, then a priuate persone durst, and could thus within so shorteshort a space as fourty dayes, driue out the other, and kepe the place him …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnto thē. For in cōparisō of that league made with Abrahā the tyme is shorteshort, that the Gētiles haue bene auowed for gods people & beloued spouse of Christe Iesus …
With rule
… vnto thē. For in cōparisō of that league made with Abrahā the tyme is shorteshort, that the Gētiles haue bene auowed for gods people & beloued spouse of Christe Iesus …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into prisons, and as moche as in you lyethe, to cruclle deathes. To be shorteshort, I wold, that christen people shulde here my doctrine, and at their commoditie, rede …
With rule
… into prisons, and as moche as in you lyethe, to cruclle deathes. To be shorteshort, I wold, that christen people shulde here my doctrine, and at their commoditie, rede …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
¶ShorteShort sencences.
With rule
¶ShorteShort sencences.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Philargyry of Great Britain A19665

Printed
ShorteShort tale to make
With rule
ShorteShort tale to make
Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader