Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33839 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spannespan

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

Puritas changed it: 95 times in 66 works
Consistency: 96.9% (95 of 98)
Reach if approved: ~103 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: span
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 (95 changes in 66 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 95)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Looke what a spoone is to the holding of the whole sea, or a spannespan to the measuring of heauen: or ones fiste to the griping of the earth …
With rule
… Looke what a spoone is to the holding of the whole sea, or a spannespan to the measuring of heauen: or ones fiste to the griping of the earth …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 995 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fastened to the top of his writing booke, with a strong thread of a spannespan long, or thereabout; that alwaies when he writeth, he may lay his copie booke …
With rule
… fastened to the top of his writing booke, with a strong thread of a spannespan long, or thereabout; that alwaies when he writeth, he may lay his copie booke …
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for those buildings which our new Church wrights haue lately set vp specke and spannespan new, building Churchframes as it were of wood couered ouer with strawe, which will …
With rule
… for those buildings which our new Church wrights haue lately set vp specke and spannespan new, building Churchframes as it were of wood couered ouer with strawe, which will …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſayings, Who hath meaſured the waters in his fiſt? and counted heaven with the ſpannespan? &c. To whom will yee then liken God? or what ſimilitude will ye ſet …
With rule
… ſayings, Who hath meaſured the waters in his fiſt? and counted heaven with the ſpannespan? &c. To whom will yee then liken God? or what ſimilitude will ye ſet …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 547 · Open in the reader
Printed
… waters in the hollow of his hand, or meted out the heavens with a ſpannespan? who comprehended the duſt of the earth in a meaſure, or weighed the mountains …
With rule
… waters in the hollow of his hand, or meted out the heavens with a ſpannespan? who comprehended the duſt of the earth in a meaſure, or weighed the mountains …
John Donne · Six Sermons Upon Several Occasions · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Amnon. The pleaſures of ſinne are but for a ſeaſon, they be but a ſpannespan long, as the afflictions of the righteous be but for a moment, ſo the …
With rule
… Amnon. The pleaſures of ſinne are but for a ſeaſon, they be but a ſpannespan long, as the afflictions of the righteous be but for a moment, ſo the …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… furbuſhed ouer their olde arguments of their blinde predeceſſors, & as if they were ſpicke & ſpannespan newe, they offer them vnto vs. But we finde them all of one metall …
With rule
… furbuſhed ouer their olde arguments of their blinde predeceſſors, & as if they were ſpicke & ſpannespan newe, they offer them vnto vs. But we finde them all of one metall …
Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the ſpace of a mans life, what is a mans life, but a ſpannespan long? and a thouſand yeares with God, are but as a day. Againe, when …
With rule
… for the ſpace of a mans life, what is a mans life, but a ſpannespan long? and a thouſand yeares with God, are but as a day. Againe, when …
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

Remains of John Boyse A16562

Printed
… before I goe hen…, being loath to loose an haires bredth of tha… little SpanneSpan, allotted vnto him; And that being, which nature denies in our selues, we desire …
With rule
… before I goe hen…, being loath to loose an haires bredth of tha… little SpanneSpan, allotted vnto him; And that being, which nature denies in our selues, we desire …
John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · Open in the reader