Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spinnespin

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

Puritas changed it: 96 times in 82 works
Consistency: 97.9% (96 of 98)
Reach if approved: ~103 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spin
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 98 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (96 changes in 82 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 96)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… what this life is, and that of ſo ſmall a bottome, the Lord ſhould ſpinnespin out ſo long a thred; Had he not drawne it out of his owne …
With rule
… what this life is, and that of ſo ſmall a bottome, the Lord ſhould ſpinnespin out ſo long a thred; Had he not drawne it out of his owne …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lillies of the feelde howe they growe, they labour not, neither doe they ſpinnespin: and yet I ſaye vnto you that euen Solomon in all his royaltie was …
With rule
… the Lillies of the feelde howe they growe, they labour not, neither doe they ſpinnespin: and yet I ſaye vnto you that euen Solomon in all his royaltie was …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… baſely inthralled with his luſts, that he vſed to weare womens apparrell and to ſpinnespin amongſt his harlots; the Scriptures themſelues doe offer vnto vs two notable examples, the …
With rule
… baſely inthralled with his luſts, that he vſed to weare womens apparrell and to ſpinnespin amongſt his harlots; the Scriptures themſelues doe offer vnto vs two notable examples, the …
John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… know is very precious, and unleſs I were a ſatisfied perſon: the time would ſpinnespin out and be very unprofitable ſpent, ſo it would; I onely muſt ſay a …
With rule
… know is very precious, and unleſs I were a ſatisfied perſon: the time would ſpinnespin out and be very unprofitable ſpent, ſo it would; I onely muſt ſay a …
Nathaniel Fiennes · Treasons Masterpiece · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we doe. Christs love to his Father, is no Critick, no knotty Questionist to spinnespin, and forge jealousies against the Lords dispensation in the influence of heaven on his …
With rule
… we doe. Christs love to his Father, is no Critick, no knotty Questionist to spinnespin, and forge jealousies against the Lords dispensation in the influence of heaven on his …
Samuel Rutherford · Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they be not moued with God his iudgements, yet whatsoeuer they doe, they shall spinnespin a threed of their owne destruction, and hatch an egge of poyson to themselues.
With rule
… they be not moued with God his iudgements, yet whatsoeuer they doe, they shall spinnespin a threed of their owne destruction, and hatch an egge of poyson to themselues.
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lillies of the fields, how… they growe: They labour not, neyther do they spinnespin, and yet I saye vnto you, that euen Salomon in all his royaltie, was …
With rule
… the Lillies of the fields, how… they growe: They labour not, neyther do they spinnespin, and yet I saye vnto you, that euen Salomon in all his royaltie, was …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… work of the service brought it. And every woman that was wise hearted, did spinnespin with her hands: and they brought the spun-worke, the blew, and the purple …
With rule
… work of the service brought it. And every woman that was wise hearted, did spinnespin with her hands: and they brought the spun-worke, the blew, and the purple …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… of the Sunne. There were Virgins kept which intended nothing but to weaue, and SpinneSpin, and Dye clothes, for their Idolatrous seruices. The like was in other places. In …
With rule
… of the Sunne. There were Virgins kept which intended nothing but to weaue, and SpinneSpin, and Dye clothes, for their Idolatrous seruices. The like was in other places. In …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 730 · Open in the reader