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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1636 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

greekegreek

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

Puritas changed it
11,693 times in 972 works
Consistency
99.9% (11,693 of 11,696)
Reach if approved
~12,289 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: greek
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
11,696 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11,693 changes in 972 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11,693)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … I have repelled his darts, I will encounter your relation, in both which the GreekeGreek proverbe is verified, foreign, never a barrell better herring. In his introduction, from p. 3. to …
    With rule
    … I have repelled his darts, I will encounter your relation, in both which the GreekeGreek proverbe is verified, foreign, never a barrell better herring. In his introduction, from p. 3. to …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … hath many branches: some greater as of a whole Province, so we distinguish the GreekeGreek and Latine, East and West Churches; some lesser, as the Church confined to any …
    With rule
    … hath many branches: some greater as of a whole Province, so we distinguish the GreekeGreek and Latine, East and West Churches; some lesser, as the Church confined to any …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 240 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    That time should be no more. &c. The greekegreek worde foreign signifieth the long delay of time. Wherevpon it is sayed that foreign dothe signifie …
    With rule
    That time should be no more. &c. The greekegreek worde foreign signifieth the long delay of time. Wherevpon it is sayed that foreign dothe signifie …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The GreekeGreek is foreign. Latine, Tradidi vobis, English it as you please, I traditioned it unto you …
    With rule
    The GreekeGreek is foreign. Latine, Tradidi vobis, English it as you please, I traditioned it unto you …

    Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … withall. He teacheth them also to make poisons: whervpon this is cleere that the greekegreek woord Pharmakeia is vsed as a generall name for witchcraft & sorcery, as we may …
    With rule
    … withall. He teacheth them also to make poisons: whervpon this is cleere that the greekegreek woord Pharmakeia is vsed as a generall name for witchcraft & sorcery, as we may …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … so called of virtue & prowesse: but homo ab humo, as foreign of the earth. In GreekeGreek, they most properly are stiled foreign who are foreign, virtuous, valorous, magnanimious: but all of all …
    With rule
    … so called of virtue & prowesse: but homo ab humo, as foreign of the earth. In GreekeGreek, they most properly are stiled foreign who are foreign, virtuous, valorous, magnanimious: but all of all …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thing be equiualent to a multitude, we may say as the Hebrue and the GreekeGreek doe, that they are al one; ten shillings and an angell are all one …
    With rule
    … thing be equiualent to a multitude, we may say as the Hebrue and the GreekeGreek doe, that they are al one; ten shillings and an angell are all one …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 669 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … heap'd and amaz'd together, like a wine-drawers stomacke; full of Dutch, French, Spanish, GreekeGreek, and many country wines; enuy, lust, treason, ambition, auarice, fraud, hypocrisie obsessing it, and …
    With rule
    … heap'd and amaz'd together, like a wine-drawers stomacke; full of Dutch, French, Spanish, GreekeGreek, and many country wines; enuy, lust, treason, ambition, auarice, fraud, hypocrisie obsessing it, and …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs A09998

  • Printed
    TRANSLATED OVT OF FRENCH INTO ENGLISH BY IOHN HARMAR, HER HIGHNES PROFESSOR IN THE GREEKEGREEK TOVNG IN THE VNIVERSITIE OF OXFORD, AND FELOWE OF THE NEWE COLLEGE THERE.
    With rule
    TRANSLATED OVT OF FRENCH INTO ENGLISH BY IOHN HARMAR, HER HIGHNES PROFESSOR IN THE GREEKEGREEK TOVNG IN THE VNIVERSITIE OF OXFORD, AND FELOWE OF THE NEWE COLLEGE THERE.

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · Open in the reader

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

  • Printed
    … Yea, further I am bolde to saye, that the moste discrepant Idiomes of the GREEKEGREEK language, such as the ATTICKE and IONICKE Idiomes, they differ not so farre, as …
    With rule
    … Yea, further I am bolde to saye, that the moste discrepant Idiomes of the GREEKEGREEK language, such as the ATTICKE and IONICKE Idiomes, they differ not so farre, as …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 76 · Open in the reader

An Antidote Against Popery B09202

  • Printed
    … other Divyne Se… vice: because Hee that made thr… principall Languages, the H… BREW, GREEKEGREEK, and LATIN… made also all others, to His ow… Prayse and Glorie.
    With rule
    … other Divyne Se… vice: because Hee that made thr… principall Languages, the H… BREW, GREEKEGREEK, and LATIN… made also all others, to His ow… Prayse and Glorie.

    William Guild · An Antidote Against Popery · p. 71 · Open in the reader