Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1652 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

turkesturks

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

Puritas changed it: 2,882 times in 787 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,882 of 2,883)
Reach if approved: ~3,029 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: turks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,883 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,882 changes in 787 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,882)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it. Behold the Confines of Christendome, Hungarie and Bohemia, infested and wasted with the TurkesTurks. Italy groning vnder the slauerie of Antichrist; which infects the soule, worse then the …
With rule
… it. Behold the Confines of Christendome, Hungarie and Bohemia, infested and wasted with the TurkesTurks. Italy groning vnder the slauerie of Antichrist; which infects the soule, worse then the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into the Iewes Synagogues, or Christians churches. The like wee read also, of the TurkesTurks at this day. So all heretiques from the beginning, assoone as they had framed …
With rule
… into the Iewes Synagogues, or Christians churches. The like wee read also, of the TurkesTurks at this day. So all heretiques from the beginning, assoone as they had framed …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… imputation on our Religion, that we spoyle our Gods: for shame, doe not the TurkesTurks, and shall the Christians? Dauid would not haue Areunah's Threshing-floore without money; if …
With rule
… imputation on our Religion, that we spoyle our Gods: for shame, doe not the TurkesTurks, and shall the Christians? Dauid would not haue Areunah's Threshing-floore without money; if …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yf we were TurkesTurks, Saraſins, Iewes or papiſtes, which either knewe not God a right, or els denied …
With rule
Yf we were TurkesTurks, Saraſins, Iewes or papiſtes, which either knewe not God a right, or els denied …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… liue charily and chastly. Not as the Fryers say, Caute si non caste: the TurkesTurks are better then the Fryers in this. Vitia sua domi deponunt, saith hee: they …
With rule
… liue charily and chastly. Not as the Fryers say, Caute si non caste: the TurkesTurks are better then the Fryers in this. Vitia sua domi deponunt, saith hee: they …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
In b…des and in belles, not vsed of the turkesturks
With rule
In b…des and in belles, not vsed of the turkesturks
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… Atheists are his viceroyes in his seuerall prouinces, for his dominion is beyond the TurkesTurks for limits: Epicures are his Nobles: Persecutors his Magistrates; Heretikes his ministers, Traytours his …
With rule
… Atheists are his viceroyes in his seuerall prouinces, for his dominion is beyond the TurkesTurks for limits: Epicures are his Nobles: Persecutors his Magistrates; Heretikes his ministers, Traytours his …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… state of these mē is more lamentable, then is the condition of Pagans and TurkesTurks. For at the bare beholding of heaven and earth the infidels heart by and …
With rule
… state of these mē is more lamentable, then is the condition of Pagans and TurkesTurks. For at the bare beholding of heaven and earth the infidels heart by and …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… yeers after that, ADRIAN the Roman Emperour deſtroyed the City. And ſince that, the TURKESTURKS have miſerably poſſeſſed it, and ſubdued and defiled it unto this very day. Therefore …
With rule
… yeers after that, ADRIAN the Roman Emperour deſtroyed the City. And ſince that, the TURKESTURKS have miſerably poſſeſſed it, and ſubdued and defiled it unto this very day. Therefore …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 78 · Open in the reader