Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2468 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oddeodd

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

Puritas changed it: 635 times in 332 works
Consistency: 99.0% (635 of 641)
Reach if approved: ~675 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: odd
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 642 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (635 changes in 332 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 635)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of God, as fed wantons to a feaſt, nothing pleaſeth vnleſſe it be ſome oddeodd ſawce or new inuention, the worſt diſh on the table; ſo it is with …
With rule
… of God, as fed wantons to a feaſt, nothing pleaſeth vnleſſe it be ſome oddeodd ſawce or new inuention, the worſt diſh on the table; ſo it is with …
Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſixtie and two; and in ſome weekes two thouſand, yea three thouſand and ſome oddeodd hundreds a weeke; I ſay, ſince this fearefull ſword of Plague was put vp …
With rule
… ſixtie and two; and in ſome weekes two thouſand, yea three thouſand and ſome oddeodd hundreds a weeke; I ſay, ſince this fearefull ſword of Plague was put vp …
Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the number of thirteen hundred pild pates, of the which number eight hundred and oddeodd were Monkes, Canons, and Fryers, chickens of the Popes owne brood. Last of all …
With rule
… the number of thirteen hundred pild pates, of the which number eight hundred and oddeodd were Monkes, Canons, and Fryers, chickens of the Popes owne brood. Last of all …
Thomas Becon · The Displaying of the Popish Mass · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ſimple rite, till after the yeare 1000. then it began to be vſed in oddeodd numbers by the appointement of Gregorie 7. according to his circle rule numero Deus impari …
With rule
… a ſimple rite, till after the yeare 1000. then it began to be vſed in oddeodd numbers by the appointement of Gregorie 7. according to his circle rule numero Deus impari …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Iair, 22. yeeres. Iudg. 10. 3. The whole in all is, 305. yeeres. Here therefore the fiue oddeodd yeeres are not named; it may be because this euen number of three hundred …
With rule
… of Iair, 22. yeeres. Iudg. 10. 3. The whole in all is, 305. yeeres. Here therefore the fiue oddeodd yeeres are not named; it may be because this euen number of three hundred …
William Perkins · The Art of Prophesying · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men, whileſt they make men beleeue, that God will be plea…ed with ſuch oddeodd deuiſes, and that his …uſtice ſhall be anſwered with the works …f our owne …
With rule
… men, whileſt they make men beleeue, that God will be plea…ed with ſuch oddeodd deuiſes, and that his …uſtice ſhall be anſwered with the works …f our owne …
Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſpecially in asking themſelues a King. And therefore God bringeth in Iob, as an oddeodd man among other, that when the people went as a ſtreame after euill, he …
With rule
… eſpecially in asking themſelues a King. And therefore God bringeth in Iob, as an oddeodd man among other, that when the people went as a ſtreame after euill, he …
Richard Rogers · Samuels Encounter with Saul · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… read Petrus Cluniacenſis Abbas his book: in which hee reports, of ſome forty and oddeodd Benedictan Monks, and Dominican Friers, that were moſt famous and notorious Letchers and Bredenbachius …
With rule
… read Petrus Cluniacenſis Abbas his book: in which hee reports, of ſome forty and oddeodd Benedictan Monks, and Dominican Friers, that were moſt famous and notorious Letchers and Bredenbachius …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 52 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

4 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.

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

Printed
… well in sport as otherwise, in diuers other childish pastimes as Cockall, Euen and OddeOdd, Heads and Points, Crosse and Pile, and the like, the most whereof we finde …
With rule
… well in sport as otherwise, in diuers other childish pastimes as Cockall, Euen and OddeOdd, Heads and Points, Crosse and Pile, and the like, the most whereof we finde …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 122 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
… I heard him once say in some passion, That Bishop Ridley was a very OddeOdd man; to whom one presently returned, he was an OddeOdd man indeed my Lord …
With rule
… I heard him once say in some passion, That Bishop Ridley was a very OddeOdd man; to whom one presently returned, he was an OddeOdd man indeed my Lord …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ridley was a very OddeOdd man; to whom one presently returned, he was an OddeOdd man indeed my Lord, for all the Popish party in England could not match …
With rule
… Ridley was a very OddeOdd man; to whom one presently returned, he was an OddeOdd man indeed my Lord, for all the Popish party in England could not match …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 34 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
OddeOdd]
With rule
OddeOdd]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 451 · Open in the reader