Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19308 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

discouererdiscoverer

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 179 times in 4 works
Consistency: 87.7% (179 of 204)
Reach if approved: ~214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: discoverer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 204 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (179 changes in 4 works, 87.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (6 of 179)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of their brethren. I doubt not but you haue read theſe words of the DiſcouererDiscoverer▪ (who neuer ſpeaketh vntruly for mee, whatſouer hee doth againſt me) M. Darrell confeſſ …
With rule
… of their brethren. I doubt not but you haue read theſe words of the DiſcouererDiscoverer▪ (who neuer ſpeaketh vntruly for mee, whatſouer hee doth againſt me) M. Darrell confeſſ …
John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meaning, let vs in few words consider somewhat both of the person of the DiscouererDiscoverer, and the substance of the discouerie: I pray you (Sir) what should moue Bradford …
With rule
… meaning, let vs in few words consider somewhat both of the person of the DiscouererDiscoverer, and the substance of the discouerie: I pray you (Sir) what should moue Bradford …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
Cortes with this new Interpreter passed vp the Riuer Tauasco, called of the former DiscouererDiscoverer, Grijalua, where the Towne that stood thereon, refusing to victuall him, was taken and …
With rule
Cortes with this new Interpreter passed vp the Riuer Tauasco, called of the former DiscouererDiscoverer, Grijalua, where the Towne that stood thereon, refusing to victuall him, was taken and …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 654 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of theſe wordes and for the diſprouing whereof this chapter was compiled by the DiſcouererDiscoverer.
With rule
… of theſe wordes and for the diſprouing whereof this chapter was compiled by the DiſcouererDiscoverer.
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
Columbus yet, as the first DiscouererDiscoverer, deserueth the name, both of the Country, for the first finding, and of Modestie …
With rule
Columbus yet, as the first DiscouererDiscoverer, deserueth the name, both of the Country, for the first finding, and of Modestie …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 602 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſecond chapter of the firſt booke, by the quaeries or demaundes to the DiſcouererDiscoverer (I meane the B. of London and S. Harſnet) iuſtifiynge the ſame, and affirminge …
With rule
… the ſecond chapter of the firſt booke, by the quaeries or demaundes to the DiſcouererDiscoverer (I meane the B. of London and S. Harſnet) iuſtifiynge the ſame, and affirminge …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (25)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 20 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word A02797

Printed
… vnmoued whereby he might discredite either me in cyting such a letter, or the discouererdiscoverer in writing it, or both. Sometimes hee seemeth to doubt whether there were any …
With rule
… vnmoued whereby he might discredite either me in cyting such a letter, or the discouererdiscoverer in writing it, or both. Sometimes hee seemeth to doubt whether there were any …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 202 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… back-side of this American World, was called the Peaceable, by Magellane the first discouererdiscoverer: it yeeldeth vs the fitter opportunitie to contemplation and discourse, in such Philosophicall Subiects …
With rule
… back-side of this American World, was called the Peaceable, by Magellane the first discouererdiscoverer: it yeeldeth vs the fitter opportunitie to contemplation and discourse, in such Philosophicall Subiects …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 601 · Open in the reader
Printed
… acquainted me with that whereof himselfe with great perill and paine, had beene the discouererdiscoverer, being in his discoueries taken Prisoner, and escaping their furie, yea receiuing much honour …
With rule
… acquainted me with that whereof himselfe with great perill and paine, had beene the discouererdiscoverer, being in his discoueries taken Prisoner, and escaping their furie, yea receiuing much honour …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 634 · Open in the reader

The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet A19855

Printed
… any other, I ſuch a one: am ready to iuſtifie the ſame but the diſcouererdiscoverer beinge priuie to his owne falſe and corrupt dealinge. and fearinge leaſt that woulde …
With rule
… any other, I ſuch a one: am ready to iuſtifie the ſame but the diſcouererdiscoverer beinge priuie to his owne falſe and corrupt dealinge. and fearinge leaſt that woulde …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and to behold the vanitie of it, and withall the ſhifting pacherie of this diſcouererdiscoverer who pretendeth forſooth and would faine haue the worlde to thinke that theſe wordes …
With rule
… and to behold the vanitie of it, and withall the ſhifting pacherie of this diſcouererdiscoverer who pretendeth forſooth and would faine haue the worlde to thinke that theſe wordes …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 177 · Open in the reader