Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50289 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

caunterburyCanterbury

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

Puritas changed it: 239 times in 21 works
Consistency: 99.5% (239 of 240)
Reach if approved: ~252 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: canterbury
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 240 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (239 changes in 21 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 239)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſonne Edwarde, Crowned with bliſſefull Martirdom of Mary hys doughter, Thomas Cranmar Archebyſhop of CaunterburyCanterbury: a worthy ſucceſſoure of william warram in that See, whome ſo lyuelye hee reſembled …
With rule
… ſonne Edwarde, Crowned with bliſſefull Martirdom of Mary hys doughter, Thomas Cranmar Archebyſhop of CaunterburyCanterbury: a worthy ſucceſſoure of william warram in that See, whome ſo lyuelye hee reſembled …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… I will speake that their matters maye be hard. I trouble my Lord of CaunterburyCanterbury, and being at hys house now and then I walke in the garden lokinge …
With rule
… I will speake that their matters maye be hard. I trouble my Lord of CaunterburyCanterbury, and being at hys house now and then I walke in the garden lokinge …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… the kings of England, he that onely readeth the elections of the Biſhop of CaunterburyCanterbury ſhall ſee ſufficient: that I ſpeake nothing of munkes againſt ſeculer prieſts, abbots againſt …
With rule
… the kings of England, he that onely readeth the elections of the Biſhop of CaunterburyCanterbury ſhall ſee ſufficient: that I ſpeake nothing of munkes againſt ſeculer prieſts, abbots againſt …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 293 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me in a tonge which I vnderstonde not? What then saith my lorde of CaunterburyCanterbury to a prest that wolde have had the new testamēte gone forth in english …
With rule
… me in a tonge which I vnderstonde not? What then saith my lorde of CaunterburyCanterbury to a prest that wolde have had the new testamēte gone forth in english …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… babling to none effecte. I omitte the talke we had of my Lorde of CaunterburyCanterbury, of Peter Martirs boke, of his letter laied to my charge. When he was …
With rule
… babling to none effecte. I omitte the talke we had of my Lorde of CaunterburyCanterbury, of Peter Martirs boke, of his letter laied to my charge. When he was …
John Bradford · All the Examinations of the Martyr John Bradford · Open in the reader
Printed
CaunterburyCanterbury.
With rule
CaunterburyCanterbury.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶The burning of fiue Martyrs at CaunterburyCanterbury.
With rule
¶The burning of fiue Martyrs at CaunterburyCanterbury.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2053 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wele ynough what they ded, beholdynge afore hande manye hydden mysteryes. They perceyued that CaunterburyCanterbury was wele out of the waye, and moche nygher the see than was London …
With rule
… wele ynough what they ded, beholdynge afore hande manye hydden mysteryes. They perceyued that CaunterburyCanterbury was wele out of the waye, and moche nygher the see than was London …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · 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.