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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1932 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

barnebarn

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

Puritas changed it
585 times in 354 works
Consistency
99.8% (585 of 586)
Reach if approved
~616 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: bairn
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
586 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (585 changes in 354 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 585)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that truſted in him never was aſhamed. Heare then thou that lookeſt into thy barnebarn, and ther's no comfort, corne is gone; into thy purſe, ther's no com…, mony …
    With rule
    … that truſted in him never was aſhamed. Heare then thou that lookeſt into thy barnebarn, and ther's no comfort, corne is gone; into thy purſe, ther's no com…, mony …

    Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … was more to liue then to labour, rather to gather ſheaues into his owne barnebarn, then to fill vp the Lords Garner; Surely that which hath the chiefetie in …
    With rule
    … was more to liue then to labour, rather to gather ſheaues into his owne barnebarn, then to fill vp the Lords Garner; Surely that which hath the chiefetie in …

    Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Nor wyfe nor barnebarn, bot I wald byte.
    With rule
    Nor wyfe nor barnebarn, bot I wald byte.

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thy barnebarn, that there might be meate in thy house. Thou callest ye preachers barnebarn▪ thy barnebarn, & his house thy house▪ And vnto thys end woldst thou haue temporal …
    With rule
    … thy barnebarn, that there might be meate in thy house. Thou callest ye preachers barnebarn▪ thy barnebarn, & his house thy house▪ And vnto thys end woldst thou haue temporal …

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. xxiiii · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Angels at the laſt day are ſent out to gather the wheat into Gods barnebarn.
    With rule
    … Angels at the laſt day are ſent out to gather the wheat into Gods barnebarn.

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 525 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Enuie is throwne like a ball of Wild-fire at anothers BarneBarn; rebounds and fires thine owne. The Swallow hauing crossed some Lands and Seas, returnes …
    With rule
    Enuie is throwne like a ball of Wild-fire at anothers BarneBarn; rebounds and fires thine owne. The Swallow hauing crossed some Lands and Seas, returnes …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … I doubt not, but all godly bishoppes, had rather serue in a french reformed barnebarn, then in a popishe gilded minster. And how so euer you iest like a …
    With rule
    … I doubt not, but all godly bishoppes, had rather serue in a french reformed barnebarn, then in a popishe gilded minster. And how so euer you iest like a …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 341 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … your ſoules in his worke doing, euen in reaping and gathering ſoules into his barnebarn, redeeming all times and occaſions with loſſe of your meate, drinke, reſt, ſleepe, pleaſures …
    With rule
    … your ſoules in his worke doing, euen in reaping and gathering ſoules into his barnebarn, redeeming all times and occaſions with loſſe of your meate, drinke, reſt, ſleepe, pleaſures …

    Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.