Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1912 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

folkefolk

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

Puritas changed it: 1,196 times in 269 works
Consistency: 99.0% (1,196 of 1,207)
Reach if approved: ~1,268 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: folk
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,207 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,196 changes in 269 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,196)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſpirite is wonte to worke, and to do his buſyneſſe by vyſyons of deed folkefolk, that he myghte make men madde, and to make them affrayed. This is vndoubted …
With rule
… ſpirite is wonte to worke, and to do his buſyneſſe by vyſyons of deed folkefolk, that he myghte make men madde, and to make them affrayed. This is vndoubted …
Martin Luther · Against the New Idol and Old Devil · Open in the reader
Printed
… But notwithstā dyng when he remembred what a great cōpany there was of hungry folkefolk, and considred how sclender the prouision was, he counted it nothing at all. What …
With rule
… But notwithstā dyng when he remembred what a great cōpany there was of hungry folkefolk, and considred how sclender the prouision was, he counted it nothing at all. What …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
EPIG. 124. Marryed-folkefolk.
With rule
EPIG. 124. Marryed-folkefolk.
John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader
Printed
… meane you to teach vs the significatiō of other words, except you would make folkefolk beleeue, that we know nothing, but what we learn of you? I say again …
With rule
… meane you to teach vs the significatiō of other words, except you would make folkefolk beleeue, that we know nothing, but what we learn of you? I say again …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 487 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more timorous than beseemeth so worthy an Apostle, &c. setting downe his iudgement whether folkefolk may marry or no, to say, they sinne not in so doing. I might …
With rule
… more timorous than beseemeth so worthy an Apostle, &c. setting downe his iudgement whether folkefolk may marry or no, to say, they sinne not in so doing. I might …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the professed nonne, nor yet to the married woman, was it commaunded, but all folkefolk are charged to committ non aduoutrye. Not to folow dronkenes, wherby the soule is …
With rule
… the professed nonne, nor yet to the married woman, was it commaunded, but all folkefolk are charged to committ non aduoutrye. Not to folow dronkenes, wherby the soule is …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
I trowe maſter Vvharton of bongaye in ſoth folkefolk will not be behynde wyth hys part now, nomore than he hath bene a …
With rule
I trowe maſter Vvharton of bongaye in ſoth folkefolk will not be behynde wyth hys part now, nomore than he hath bene a …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
Or he that whipte the hethen folkefolk,
With rule
Or he that whipte the hethen folkefolk,
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

7 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.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… not any thing, I say not so happie, but so wretched & miserable as man. FolkeFolk will say he is an honest man; but yet as honest as he is …
With rule
… not any thing, I say not so happie, but so wretched & miserable as man. FolkeFolk will say he is an honest man; but yet as honest as he is …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 333 · Open in the reader

Englands Hallelujah A14379

Printed
Thou dost thy FolkeFolk defend
With rule
Thou dost thy FolkeFolk defend
John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader

Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked A16795

Printed
… you will, you may see, in the bookes of Bishop Iewel, D. Hūfry, D. FolkeFolk, Peter Martyr, Chēnicius, yea M. Calvins Institutiōs, to say nothing of divers now livīg …
With rule
… you will, you may see, in the bookes of Bishop Iewel, D. Hūfry, D. FolkeFolk, Peter Martyr, Chēnicius, yea M. Calvins Institutiōs, to say nothing of divers now livīg …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 370 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
… giuen him as a little childe hath: it will not serue to excuse him. FolkeFolk doe not vse to giue a young childe his breakefast till hee haue prayed …
With rule
… giuen him as a little childe hath: it will not serue to excuse him. FolkeFolk doe not vse to giue a young childe his breakefast till hee haue prayed …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 608 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it was like ynough that those people should bee corrupted. And vnder the worde FolkeFolk, Moses comprehended not onely the Tribes of Israell; but also those which erst had …
With rule
… it was like ynough that those people should bee corrupted. And vnder the worde FolkeFolk, Moses comprehended not onely the Tribes of Israell; but also those which erst had …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1219 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

Printed
… it self: but yit for all that, how is it practyzed in the worlde? FolkeFolk would fayne alledge excuce of ignorance, too shift off the performance of their dewtie …
With rule
… it self: but yit for all that, how is it practyzed in the worlde? FolkeFolk would fayne alledge excuce of ignorance, too shift off the performance of their dewtie …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
Ioh. FolkeFolk
With rule
Ioh. FolkeFolk
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 342 · Open in the reader