Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35671 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

countrie mencountrymen

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it: 47 times in 26 works
Consistency: 97.9% (47 of 48, in those works)
Reach if approved: ~50 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Phrase, any case
In our text: 48 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (47 changes in 26 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 47)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to be vile; lying, luxurie, idleneſſe; the Cretian Poet could tax in his owne countrie mencountrymen: but to read over the whole Hiſtorie of a mans life without any other …
With rule
… to be vile; lying, luxurie, idleneſſe; the Cretian Poet could tax in his owne countrie mencountrymen: but to read over the whole Hiſtorie of a mans life without any other …
William Spurstowe · Englands Pattern and Duty in its Monthly Fasts · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to set downe the discouerie of your Catholike Kings secret determination, to admonish my countrie mencountrymen, to take heed how they lend aide to bring in a forraine ruler into …
With rule
… to set downe the discouerie of your Catholike Kings secret determination, to admonish my countrie mencountrymen, to take heed how they lend aide to bring in a forraine ruler into …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
… malice. Wōder not that I terme them your ennemies. For albeit they be your countrie mencountrymen, yet because they seke nothing more, then the maītaināce of their owne kīgdome, which …
With rule
… malice. Wōder not that I terme them your ennemies. For albeit they be your countrie mencountrymen, yet because they seke nothing more, then the maītaināce of their owne kīgdome, which …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it themſelues, nor ſhew that amiable vſe of it to others, as ſome meane countrie mencountrymen which labour faithfully to make conſcience of that which they know. And I ſay …
With rule
… it themſelues, nor ſhew that amiable vſe of it to others, as ſome meane countrie mencountrymen which labour faithfully to make conſcience of that which they know. And I ſay …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Arbytres / beinge none off this oure congregation / and yet from amonge the brethern / oure countrie mencountrymen / equally and indifferently / by the parties diſagreinge / to be choſen vpon this condition / that …
With rule
… Arbytres / beinge none off this oure congregation / and yet from amonge the brethern / oure countrie mencountrymen / equally and indifferently / by the parties diſagreinge / to be choſen vpon this condition / that …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. C · Open in the reader
Printed
… that Prophets are rather honoured els where in any place, then amongst their owne countrie mencountrymen. And this prouerbe may haue a double beginning & meaning. For this is a cōmon …
With rule
… that Prophets are rather honoured els where in any place, then amongst their owne countrie mencountrymen. And this prouerbe may haue a double beginning & meaning. For this is a cōmon …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men. For beholde how the Apoſtles, who were very wel knowne to bée plaine countrie mencountrymen, & of baſe eſtate, ſpake diuers and ſundry forreine tongues and languages, excellently handling the …
With rule
… men. For beholde how the Apoſtles, who were very wel knowne to bée plaine countrie mencountrymen, & of baſe eſtate, ſpake diuers and ſundry forreine tongues and languages, excellently handling the …
John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Abbots-hall were ſent, the town not as yet knowing of the Weſt-countrie mencountrymen. The Duke and Doſell require, that the town should be patent, and all things …
With rule
… and Abbots-hall were ſent, the town not as yet knowing of the Weſt-countrie mencountrymen. The Duke and Doſell require, that the town should be patent, and all things …
Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 195 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort A15145

Printed
… vnto the right honorable Magiſtrate / with the reproche off your ſelff and off your countrie mencountrymen. In dede we woulde haue ſuffred theis (as common reproches) to be buried in …
With rule
… vnto the right honorable Magiſtrate / with the reproche off your ſelff and off your countrie mencountrymen. In dede we woulde haue ſuffred theis (as common reproches) to be buried in …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. CLXI · Open in the reader