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almanackAlmanac

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

Puritas changed it
256 times in 198 works
Consistency
95.5% (256 of 268)
Reach if approved
~282 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: almanac
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
268 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (256 changes in 198 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 256)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to judge. They are reputed Learned, if they can little more then turn an AlmanackAlmanac, underſtand ſome plain Engliſh Authour, or but have ſeen a Statute, and then, as …
    With rule
    … to judge. They are reputed Learned, if they can little more then turn an AlmanackAlmanac, underſtand ſome plain Engliſh Authour, or but have ſeen a Statute, and then, as …

    Christopher Elderfield · The Civil Right of Tithes · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … already; and wisely considering with himself that there are but few dayes in the AlmanackAlmanac, wherein such Marriages come in, and subjects have opportunity to wed Queens, he first …
    With rule
    … already; and wisely considering with himself that there are but few dayes in the AlmanackAlmanac, wherein such Marriages come in, and subjects have opportunity to wed Queens, he first …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 255 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … so this man to make the government of Christs Church as vncertayne as an AlmanackAlmanac, sets together, and so offers to the vvievv of the world the contrarieties of …
    With rule
    … so this man to make the government of Christs Church as vncertayne as an AlmanackAlmanac, sets together, and so offers to the vvievv of the world the contrarieties of …

    John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 171 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … credulity abused, has scarce a securer way, then (like that Astrologer, who made his AlmanackAlmanac give a tolerable account of the weather by a direct inversion of the common …
    With rule
    … credulity abused, has scarce a securer way, then (like that Astrologer, who made his AlmanackAlmanac give a tolerable account of the weather by a direct inversion of the common …

    Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … with them, that they muſt be named and written with red Letters in an AlmanackAlmanac: And H. T. Man. pag. 84. is fain to ſend us for proof to their …
    With rule
    … with them, that they muſt be named and written with red Letters in an AlmanackAlmanac: And H. T. Man. pag. 84. is fain to ſend us for proof to their …

    Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Twelve Tables, in a Solar Calendar as familiar to the Underſtanding as a common AlmanackAlmanac. With a full Proof that this is the laſt Generation, which ſhall not paſs …
    With rule
    … Twelve Tables, in a Solar Calendar as familiar to the Underſtanding as a common AlmanackAlmanac. With a full Proof that this is the laſt Generation, which ſhall not paſs …

    Thomas Beverley · The Blessing of Moses on the Tribe of Asher · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Part of the diſcovery of the Revelation to John, which is as a ſtanding AlmanackAlmanac to the Church, was made us by an Angel. And when by the courſe …
    With rule
    … Part of the diſcovery of the Revelation to John, which is as a ſtanding AlmanackAlmanac to the Church, was made us by an Angel. And when by the courſe …

    Stephen Charnock · A Treatise of Divine Providence · p. 220 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and endeth in ſome looſer Author, as the yearly computation, changeth with a new AlmanackAlmanac. For conceited ſtrictneſſe, without conſcience and ſincerity, reſolves into greater looſeneſſe, when the former …
    With rule
    … and endeth in ſome looſer Author, as the yearly computation, changeth with a new AlmanackAlmanac. For conceited ſtrictneſſe, without conſcience and ſincerity, reſolves into greater looſeneſſe, when the former …

    Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 514 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Holy State A40674

  • Printed
    … corslet wholler then his clothes; though he hath more Fasts and Vigills in his almanackAlmanac then the Romish Church did ever enjoyn: he patiently endureth drougth for desire of …
    With rule
    … corslet wholler then his clothes; though he hath more Fasts and Vigills in his almanackAlmanac then the Romish Church did ever enjoyn: he patiently endureth drougth for desire of …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 121 · Open in the reader