Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2151 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maidemaid

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

Puritas changed it: 757 times in 343 works
Consistency: 99.7% (757 of 759)
Reach if approved: ~799 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: maid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 760 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (757 changes in 343 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 757)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Dauid, vnto hir, saying expresly in their commentaries, Et vocabit ipsa puella: and the maidemaid hir self shall call. and surely, the vsual pointing of the Greeke text (for …
With rule
… Dauid, vnto hir, saying expresly in their commentaries, Et vocabit ipsa puella: and the maidemaid hir self shall call. and surely, the vsual pointing of the Greeke text (for …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 470 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neighbours houſe, thou ſhalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his ſeruant, nor his maidemaid, nor his Oxe, nor his Aſſe, nor any thing that is his.
With rule
… neighbours houſe, thou ſhalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his ſeruant, nor his maidemaid, nor his Oxe, nor his Aſſe, nor any thing that is his.
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Do they not lead captiue, I ſay not as they did of Siſera, a maidemaid or two, or (as Paul doth of the wily workemen of his time) a …
With rule
… Do they not lead captiue, I ſay not as they did of Siſera, a maidemaid or two, or (as Paul doth of the wily workemen of his time) a …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well fenced with a wall? If the Inhabitants be well nurtured (ſayd the wiſe maidemaid) I eſteeme it excellently fenced. If perfidiouſneſſe, and Interuerting or ſtealing from the Prince …
With rule
… well fenced with a wall? If the Inhabitants be well nurtured (ſayd the wiſe maidemaid) I eſteeme it excellently fenced. If perfidiouſneſſe, and Interuerting or ſtealing from the Prince …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · Open in the reader
Printed
… playes, for ſometimes their goods are ſtollen to mainteine Lewdnes, ſometimes their daughters or maidemaid-ſervants are defiled, or ſtollen away, and maried without their governours conſent or privitie.
With rule
… playes, for ſometimes their goods are ſtollen to mainteine Lewdnes, ſometimes their daughters or maidemaid-ſervants are defiled, or ſtollen away, and maried without their governours conſent or privitie.
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God so blessed Iacob, that he was excedinge ryche in gold and siluer, in maidemaid seruauntes and men seruauntes, in sh…pe, Camels, Asses, goates, kyne. &c. And afterwarde …
With rule
… God so blessed Iacob, that he was excedinge ryche in gold and siluer, in maidemaid seruauntes and men seruauntes, in sh…pe, Camels, Asses, goates, kyne. &c. And afterwarde …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
POpe Innocent the thyrd bearing rule a certain maidemaid called Clara, a countreywoman and Disciple of Fraunces the Fryer, assembled and gathered together …
With rule
POpe Innocent the thyrd bearing rule a certain maidemaid called Clara, a countreywoman and Disciple of Fraunces the Fryer, assembled and gathered together …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
A. Nor his wife, nor his ſeruant, nor his maidemaid, nor his oxe, nor his aſſe.
With rule
A. Nor his wife, nor his ſeruant, nor his maidemaid, nor his oxe, nor his aſſe.
Richard Bernard · The Common Catechism with Commentary · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.