Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50155 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bethlemBethlehem

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

Puritas changed it: 380 times in 170 works
Consistency: 99.7% (380 of 381)
Reach if approved: ~400 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bethlehem
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 381 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (380 changes in 170 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 380)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… being baptized, and thereby installed in his office of Mediatour, he returnes not to BethlemBethlehem or Nazaret where he was borne and brought vp, but gets him presently into …
With rule
… being baptized, and thereby installed in his office of Mediatour, he returnes not to BethlemBethlehem or Nazaret where he was borne and brought vp, but gets him presently into …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
David refused to drinke the water of BethlemBethlehem, 3 reas. ib.
With rule
David refused to drinke the water of BethlemBethlehem, 3 reas. ib.
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · Open in the reader
Printed
… men and Prophets there preached, then euer Rome had. And Hierome speaking of poore BethlemBethlehem saith, Puto sanctior locus est rupe Tarpeia, quae de caelo saepius fulminata ostendit, quod …
With rule
… men and Prophets there preached, then euer Rome had. And Hierome speaking of poore BethlemBethlehem saith, Puto sanctior locus est rupe Tarpeia, quae de caelo saepius fulminata ostendit, quod …
Andrew Willet · The Joy of the English Church for the Coronation of Pious Prince James · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was repoſed therein: therefore the king built a houſe for this Quéene remote from BethlemBethlehem, & placed her therin, where ſhe continued. Neither haue we heard any exception made (as …
With rule
… was repoſed therein: therefore the king built a houſe for this Quéene remote from BethlemBethlehem, & placed her therin, where ſhe continued. Neither haue we heard any exception made (as …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhould ſerue their gold and ſiluer ſo got, as Dauid did the water of BethlemBethlehem, euen ſpill it, and throw it a way, then reſerue it for their owne …
With rule
… ſhould ſerue their gold and ſiluer ſo got, as Dauid did the water of BethlemBethlehem, euen ſpill it, and throw it a way, then reſerue it for their owne …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises 2 · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was his voluntary, and gracious Sending, in his Incarnation. Though he was born at BethlemBethlehem, Yet his goings forth, were from of old, from everlasting, Micah V. 2.
With rule
… was his voluntary, and gracious Sending, in his Incarnation. Though he was born at BethlemBethlehem, Yet his goings forth, were from of old, from everlasting, Micah V. 2.
Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us to thirſt after death, as David after the waters in the wells of BethlemBethlehem, and to breake thorough all difficulties, to attaine that immortall, and ever-bleſſed eſtate …
With rule
… us to thirſt after death, as David after the waters in the wells of BethlemBethlehem, and to breake thorough all difficulties, to attaine that immortall, and ever-bleſſed eſtate …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… people, the one for to supply hys place in Bethsabe, and the other in BethlemBethlehem. As … haue now in England, for the wealth of the Realme, two Lordes presidentes …
With rule
… people, the one for to supply hys place in Bethsabe, and the other in BethlemBethlehem. As … haue now in England, for the wealth of the Realme, two Lordes presidentes …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · 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.

The Blessedness of Being Bountiful A39905

Printed
IN ALBUM CURATORUM HONORIFICORUM HOSPITII Vulgo DICTI DE BRIDEWELL, Alteriúſque de BETHLEMBETHLEHEM, DEMISSIONE SUI GRATIOSA NUPER ADSCRIPTO;
With rule
IN ALBUM CURATORUM HONORIFICORUM HOSPITII Vulgo DICTI DE BRIDEWELL, Alteriúſque de BETHLEMBETHLEHEM, DEMISSIONE SUI GRATIOSA NUPER ADSCRIPTO;
Simon Ford · The Blessedness of Being Bountiful · Open in the reader