Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3253 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

eighteeneeighteen

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

Puritas changed it: 382 times in 183 works
Consistency: 96.9% (382 of 394)
Reach if approved: ~414 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: eighteen
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 394 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (382 changes in 183 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 382)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… houres, and fourtie foure Minutes: And from the Change to the Full, fourteene dayes, eighteeneeighteen houres, and twentie two Minutes. And for everie quarter, seaven dayes, nine houres, and …
With rule
… houres, and fourtie foure Minutes: And from the Change to the Full, fourteene dayes, eighteeneeighteen houres, and twentie two Minutes. And for everie quarter, seaven dayes, nine houres, and …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… booke hath been in the hands of thouſands) and ſhould come no more in eighteeneeighteen yeares, to helpe them out of feare and doubt, and how to liue afterwards …
With rule
… booke hath been in the hands of thouſands) and ſhould come no more in eighteeneeighteen yeares, to helpe them out of feare and doubt, and how to liue afterwards …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · Open in the reader
Printed
… the yeere 333. ſummoned the famous Counſell of Nice, whether hee brought three hundred and eighteeneeighteen Biſhoppes, to maintaine the truth of the diuinitie of Chriſt againſt Arrius: So they …
With rule
… the yeere 333. ſummoned the famous Counſell of Nice, whether hee brought three hundred and eighteeneeighteen Biſhoppes, to maintaine the truth of the diuinitie of Chriſt againſt Arrius: So they …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 331 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without due respect had of the omnipotent Iustice, hee samples it with another; of eighteeneeighteen men miscarrying by the fall of a Tower. No Pilate threw downe this, here …
With rule
… without due respect had of the omnipotent Iustice, hee samples it with another; of eighteeneeighteen men miscarrying by the fall of a Tower. No Pilate threw downe this, here …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Sabbath resorted to the Synagogue, though she had had a spirit of infirmity eighteeneeighteen yeares, Luke 13. 10, 11. And because the true cause of their absence, is for that they …
With rule
… the Sabbath resorted to the Synagogue, though she had had a spirit of infirmity eighteeneeighteen yeares, Luke 13. 10, 11. And because the true cause of their absence, is for that they …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 385 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Law they could not be ſaved; this occaſioned the firſt Councell about ſome eighteeneeighteen yeares after CHRIST'S death, and within ſome yeares after this occaſioned the Apoſtle to …
With rule
… the Law they could not be ſaved; this occaſioned the firſt Councell about ſome eighteeneeighteen yeares after CHRIST'S death, and within ſome yeares after this occaſioned the Apoſtle to …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 360 · Open in the reader
Printed
… longer time to continue than he imagined. But here is both a difference of eighteeneeighteen yeeres, and the two and forty moneths of the Popiſh Gentiles doe not thus …
With rule
… longer time to continue than he imagined. But here is both a difference of eighteeneeighteen yeeres, and the two and forty moneths of the Popiſh Gentiles doe not thus …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 365 · Open in the reader
Printed
… another woman had a spirit of …fi…mi…ie, and was bound by Satan eighteeneeighteen yeeres; yet she would not (for any thing wee know) vse any ill meanes …
With rule
… another woman had a spirit of …fi…mi…ie, and was bound by Satan eighteeneeighteen yeeres; yet she would not (for any thing wee know) vse any ill meanes …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 151 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… the earth and hell, which stay those flames, which els would consume the world. EighteeneEighteen, Interpositions there be betweene the throne of GOD, and the aire; for else the …
With rule
… the earth and hell, which stay those flames, which els would consume the world. EighteeneEighteen, Interpositions there be betweene the throne of GOD, and the aire; for else the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 215 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
EighteeneEighteen hundred yeres forbearance of the Iewes for their Amendement.
With rule
EighteeneEighteen hundred yeres forbearance of the Iewes for their Amendement.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
EighteeneEighteen hundred Yeares forbearāce of the Iewes for their amendement.
With rule
EighteeneEighteen hundred Yeares forbearāce of the Iewes for their amendement.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine A22562

Printed
EighteeneEighteen upon whom the tower fell and ſlew them.
With rule
EighteeneEighteen upon whom the tower fell and ſlew them.
William Attersoll · Conversion of Nineveh, Gods Trumpet, Physic Against Famine · p. 4 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… King was under age, scarce fifteene yeares old (though Froyssard saith he was then EighteeneEighteen) there were twelve appointed Governours of him and the kingdome… namely the Arch-bishops …
With rule
… King was under age, scarce fifteene yeares old (though Froyssard saith he was then EighteeneEighteen) there were twelve appointed Governours of him and the kingdome… namely the Arch-bishops …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 156 · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

Printed
… the expiration. Thirty eight yeares he appointed the sick man at Bethesda's Poole, John 5. 5. EighteeneEighteen yeares to that daughter of Abraham, whom Christ loosed from her disease: Luke 13. 16. Twelve …
With rule
… the expiration. Thirty eight yeares he appointed the sick man at Bethesda's Poole, John 5. 5. EighteeneEighteen yeares to that daughter of Abraham, whom Christ loosed from her disease: Luke 13. 16. Twelve …
Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 276 · Open in the reader