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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50065 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mundayMonday

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
620 times in 231 works
Consistency
99.8% (620 of 621)
Reach if approved
~654 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: monday
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
622 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (620 changes in 231 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 620)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … your purpose to leave Paris, on the Friday following I sent to you the MundayMonday before word by M. Knevet, that I would meete with you upon Tuesday, on …
    With rule
    … your purpose to leave Paris, on the Friday following I sent to you the MundayMonday before word by M. Knevet, that I would meete with you upon Tuesday, on …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Sunday after his penance, he… should offer vnto the Triuitie, and euery Ashwednesday, and MundayMonday, and Thursday three yeare after, hée should appeare before the Ordinary, in the Cathedral …
    With rule
    … Sunday after his penance, he… should offer vnto the Triuitie, and euery Ashwednesday, and MundayMonday, and Thursday three yeare after, hée should appeare before the Ordinary, in the Cathedral …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Church hath no authority to change the Lords day, and to keepe it vpon MundayMonday or Tuesday, or any other day: seeing it is not a matter of indifferency …
    With rule
    … Church hath no authority to change the Lords day, and to keepe it vpon MundayMonday or Tuesday, or any other day: seeing it is not a matter of indifferency …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 381 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … héede now thou deceiue not thy self. Looke not after any licentiousnesse on the mundayMonday, thinke not that God more accompteth of one day, than other. As on sunday …
    With rule
    … héede now thou deceiue not thy self. Looke not after any licentiousnesse on the mundayMonday, thinke not that God more accompteth of one day, than other. As on sunday …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    On MundayMonday was three Weeks, at, or near the House of Ioseph Cruttenden of Brightling, an …
    With rule
    On MundayMonday was three Weeks, at, or near the House of Ioseph Cruttenden of Brightling, an …

    Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Lords day, and removing of the mercats in all the land from the MundayMonday to other dayes of the week.
    With rule
    … the Lords day, and removing of the mercats in all the land from the MundayMonday to other dayes of the week.

    Robert Baillie · Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    On MundayMonday after Sir Thomas Baskervile with six hundred men began their journey by Land towards …
    With rule
    On MundayMonday after Sir Thomas Baskervile with six hundred men began their journey by Land towards …

    Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of that, that I promise now, that I will certainly goe with you on MundayMonday, in despite of these interruptions, and serve you with my company to the Bathe …
    With rule
    … of that, that I promise now, that I will certainly goe with you on MundayMonday, in despite of these interruptions, and serve you with my company to the Bathe …

    John Donne · Letters to Several Persons of Honor · p. 203 · 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.

A Week of Soliloquies and Prayers B02806

  • Printed
    For MUNDAYMONDAY.
    With rule
    For MUNDAYMONDAY.

    Peter du Moulin Jr · A Week of Soliloquies and Prayers · p. 1 · Open in the reader