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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nettenet

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
124 times in 73 works
Consistency
89.8% (124 of 138)
Reach if approved
~145 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: net
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
138 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (124 changes in 73 works, 89.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 124)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that he can come by, so that all is fyshe that cō meth to nettenet. I am after no suche sorte, god be thāckede my righteousnes, my holynes, is …
    With rule
    … that he can come by, so that all is fyshe that cō meth to nettenet. I am after no suche sorte, god be thāckede my righteousnes, my holynes, is …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in this life or in the life to come. The second is, that the nettenet was unbroke though it had in it great fishes to the number of an …
    With rule
    … in this life or in the life to come. The second is, that the nettenet was unbroke though it had in it great fishes to the number of an …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … take awaie their heartes, they were as a snare on Mispah, and as a nettenet spread on Tabor (as saieth the Prophet:) All was fish that came to their …
    With rule
    … take awaie their heartes, they were as a snare on Mispah, and as a nettenet spread on Tabor (as saieth the Prophet:) All was fish that came to their …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 327 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and be more carefull of their concluſions, leaſt they lay a trappe, and a nettenet to catch themſelues withall. Secondly, a direction to Gods children, that as much as …
    With rule
    … and be more carefull of their concluſions, leaſt they lay a trappe, and a nettenet to catch themſelues withall. Secondly, a direction to Gods children, that as much as …

    John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to Satan by acquainting thēselues together, so as they may bee caught in his nettenet, and giue themselues ouer vnto him in bondage: it is whoredome before God. And …
    With rule
    … to Satan by acquainting thēselues together, so as they may bee caught in his nettenet, and giue themselues ouer vnto him in bondage: it is whoredome before God. And …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and vnchéerefull. On the left hand ſate another perſon, hauing in his hand a nettenet which hee threatned to lay to catche the people that ſtoode about, and ſaide …
    With rule
    … and vnchéerefull. On the left hand ſate another perſon, hauing in his hand a nettenet which hee threatned to lay to catche the people that ſtoode about, and ſaide …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … sone, and reasoned full lyke a polityque pultar. If a nettenet be not a nettenet, but yt shaddow of a nettenet than are we not lyke with our net …
    With rule
    … sone, and reasoned full lyke a polityque pultar. If a nettenet be not a nettenet, but yt shaddow of a nettenet than are we not lyke with our net …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. liii · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … cōmenly ſaid in the prouerbe) and that they haue all in vayne ſpredde a nettenet before the byrdes iyes, as Salamon ſayth in the fyrſte chapytre of the prouerbes …
    With rule
    … cōmenly ſaid in the prouerbe) and that they haue all in vayne ſpredde a nettenet before the byrdes iyes, as Salamon ſayth in the fyrſte chapytre of the prouerbes …

    Martin Luther · Against the New Idol and Old Devil · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

  • Printed
    … night, and haue taken nothyng. Neuerthelesse, at thy commaundement I will loose foorthe the NetteNet. And when he had so dooen, thei inclosed a greate multitude of Fishes, but …
    With rule
    … night, and haue taken nothyng. Neuerthelesse, at thy commaundement I will loose foorthe the NetteNet. And when he had so dooen, thei inclosed a greate multitude of Fishes, but …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … as thy shippe is now full of fishe. I will finde thee an other NetteNet for that draught, that is, the Gospell. By this shalt thou take the elect …
    With rule
    … as thy shippe is now full of fishe. I will finde thee an other NetteNet for that draught, that is, the Gospell. By this shalt thou take the elect …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 42 · Open in the reader

A Sinners Indictment A14766

  • Printed
    … and if vnhappily they buy their Offices, then is all Fish that commeth to NetteNet with them, catch that catch may: then must the poore Countrey people pay for …
    With rule
    … and if vnhappily they buy their Offices, then is all Fish that commeth to NetteNet with them, catch that catch may: then must the poore Countrey people pay for …

    William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 117 · Open in the reader