Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50199 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dutchyDuchy

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

Puritas changed it: 323 times in 75 works
Consistency: 99.6% (323 of 324)
Reach if approved: ~340 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: duchy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 324 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (323 changes in 75 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 323)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… did not go much further, whereas Gregory absolv'd the Emperor's subjects in the Roman DutchyDuchy from their Allegiance; commanded them not to pay him any tribute, nor in any …
With rule
… did not go much further, whereas Gregory absolv'd the Emperor's subjects in the Roman DutchyDuchy from their Allegiance; commanded them not to pay him any tribute, nor in any …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
No Province in all the Low-Countries, is so replenished with Nobility as this DutchyDuchy of Luxembourg, who govern their Subjects and Tenants like to the Peasants of France …
With rule
No Province in all the Low-Countries, is so replenished with Nobility as this DutchyDuchy of Luxembourg, who govern their Subjects and Tenants like to the Peasants of France …
Samuel Clarke · A Description of the Seventeen Provinces Commonly Called the Low Countries · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
7. The same Author relates, That at Oster in the DutchyDuchy of Magalopole, a wicked Woman used in her Cursings, to give her self, Body …
With rule
7. The same Author relates, That at Oster in the DutchyDuchy of Magalopole, a wicked Woman used in her Cursings, to give her self, Body …
Thomas Doolittle · The Swearer Silenced · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Law, and afterwards died Profeſſor thereof, in the Univerſity of Ponta Mouſan in the DutchyDuchy of Lorrain.
With rule
… Law, and afterwards died Profeſſor thereof, in the Univerſity of Ponta Mouſan in the DutchyDuchy of Lorrain.
William Gearing · The History of the Church of Great Britain · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
THis preſent Pope of Rome was Cardinal Odeſchalchi of Come in the DutchyDuchy of Millaine, when called to the Roman-Chair, whether we wrong him in reckoning …
With rule
THis preſent Pope of Rome was Cardinal Odeſchalchi of Come in the DutchyDuchy of Millaine, when called to the Roman-Chair, whether we wrong him in reckoning …
Christopher Ness · The Devils Patriarch · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his great Seals of England and Ireland, of the Chancellours of the Exchequer and DutchyDuchy, and Masters of the Rolls, as well in Ireland as England, who are the …
With rule
… his great Seals of England and Ireland, of the Chancellours of the Exchequer and DutchyDuchy, and Masters of the Rolls, as well in Ireland as England, who are the …
William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeven princely gifts beſtowed upon him at the Font. His father gave him the DutchyDuchy of Lutzenburg, another a ſilver head-peece, another a golden ſword, &c. the Abbats …
With rule
… ſeven princely gifts beſtowed upon him at the Font. His father gave him the DutchyDuchy of Lutzenburg, another a ſilver head-peece, another a golden ſword, &c. the Abbats …
John Trapp · The True Treasury · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his office enjoy the cuſtody and profits of the great Seale of England, the DutchyDuchy of Lancaſter, together with the Maſterſhip of the Rolls, and as many other places …
With rule
… his office enjoy the cuſtody and profits of the great Seale of England, the DutchyDuchy of Lancaſter, together with the Maſterſhip of the Rolls, and as many other places …
William Prynne · A New Magna Carta · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.