Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2172 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

birdesbirds

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

Puritas changed it: 424 times in 193 works
Consistency: 100% (424 of 424)
Reach if approved: ~446 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: birds
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 424 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (424 changes in 193 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 424)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… said by me in my former booke against them. Onely I yeelde they were birdesbirds of a feather, and therefore fit to slie together, and according to our English …
With rule
… said by me in my former booke against them. Onely I yeelde they were birdesbirds of a feather, and therefore fit to slie together, and according to our English …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnſanctifyed and abominable, as ſhee is become a cage of all vncleane and hatefull birdesbirds, and that all her children and Marchants that will not departe out of her …
With rule
… vnſanctifyed and abominable, as ſhee is become a cage of all vncleane and hatefull birdesbirds, and that all her children and Marchants that will not departe out of her …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Men and Women, Maiſters, and Seruauntes, Yong and Old, Beaſtes of the field, and BirdesBirds of the Aire? Forſoothe, the cauſe of ſo generall a deſtruction, was their wicked …
With rule
… Men and Women, Maiſters, and Seruauntes, Yong and Old, Beaſtes of the field, and BirdesBirds of the Aire? Forſoothe, the cauſe of ſo generall a deſtruction, was their wicked …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… also shall haue appareill from God? For as we haue a preferment before all birdesbirds, when we tyll the grounde, mowe, and gather into our barnes, and prouide for …
With rule
… also shall haue appareill from God? For as we haue a preferment before all birdesbirds, when we tyll the grounde, mowe, and gather into our barnes, and prouide for …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be stirring; but men growen into yeeres, doe loue to settle themselues as birdesbirds in their nests: and it is grieuous vnto them to think of remouing, or …
With rule
… to be stirring; but men growen into yeeres, doe loue to settle themselues as birdesbirds in their nests: and it is grieuous vnto them to think of remouing, or …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the examples thereof in the ſonges and Canticles of the Saintes: whereunto the yong birdesbirds alſo inuite vs, knowing the time of their chaſt mating & coupling: for which cauſe …
With rule
… the examples thereof in the ſonges and Canticles of the Saintes: whereunto the yong birdesbirds alſo inuite vs, knowing the time of their chaſt mating & coupling: for which cauſe …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wild Bore hath spoiled the Vineyard: why the Iim and Zym, filthy and vncleane BirdesBirds roost themselues in those sanctified dominions; Why Mahomet is set vp like Dagon, where …
With rule
… wild Bore hath spoiled the Vineyard: why the Iim and Zym, filthy and vncleane BirdesBirds roost themselues in those sanctified dominions; Why Mahomet is set vp like Dagon, where …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and spoyle the Citie of God: hee liath other Watch-men vnder him, Vncleane birdesbirds, fluttring from that Vulture of Babilon, and flying like Battes and Owles vnder the …
With rule
… and spoyle the Citie of God: hee liath other Watch-men vnder him, Vncleane birdesbirds, fluttring from that Vulture of Babilon, and flying like Battes and Owles vnder the …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.