Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50404 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brittainsBritons

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

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 82 works
Consistency: 98.7% (161 of 163)
Reach if approved: ~171 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: britain's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 163 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 82 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… both the one and the other. The Ticts, Saxons, Scots and Allacots, infeſted the BrittainsBritons with continual troubles The Anſtorians and other Manrite Nations made Rodes more fiercely than …
With rule
… both the one and the other. The Ticts, Saxons, Scots and Allacots, infeſted the BrittainsBritons with continual troubles The Anſtorians and other Manrite Nations made Rodes more fiercely than …
Samuel Petto · The Revelation Unveiled · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Communion with that of Rome? What infallible Testimony of that Church had the poor BrittainsBritons to believe on? or those Barbarians mentioned in Irenaeus, who yet believed without a …
With rule
… Communion with that of Rome? What infallible Testimony of that Church had the poor BrittainsBritons to believe on? or those Barbarians mentioned in Irenaeus, who yet believed without a …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Grounds of Protestant Religion · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… depths nor hell, (as that Popiſh pamphletter ſuggeſteth) but the bloud of the valourous BrittainsBritons; for the which, the Nation ſhould be precious in their eyes: if Xerxes held …
With rule
… depths nor hell, (as that Popiſh pamphletter ſuggeſteth) but the bloud of the valourous BrittainsBritons; for the which, the Nation ſhould be precious in their eyes: if Xerxes held …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
… partly of ſuch publick parties (the ancient Churches, the Novatians, the Donatiſts, the old BrittainsBritons, the Waldenſes, the Wickliffians, &c.) and partly of ſuch publick Writings (as Auguſtines and …
With rule
… partly of ſuch publick parties (the ancient Churches, the Novatians, the Donatiſts, the old BrittainsBritons, the Waldenſes, the Wickliffians, &c.) and partly of ſuch publick Writings (as Auguſtines and …
Richard Baxter · Review of the State of Christians Infants · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it selfe. Tacitus saith, that nothing gave the Romans more advantage against the ancient BrittainsBritons then this, Quod factionibus & studijs trahebantur. Mandubratius (as Caesar cals him) out of hatred …
With rule
… it selfe. Tacitus saith, that nothing gave the Romans more advantage against the ancient BrittainsBritons then this, Quod factionibus & studijs trahebantur. Mandubratius (as Caesar cals him) out of hatred …
Edmund Calamy · Englands Looking Glass · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſame. Then Auſtin gathered a Synod, to the which came ſeven Biſhops of BrittainsBritons, with the wiſeſt men of the famous Abby of Bangor. But firſt they took …
With rule
… the ſame. Then Auſtin gathered a Synod, to the which came ſeven Biſhops of BrittainsBritons, with the wiſeſt men of the famous Abby of Bangor. But firſt they took …
Thomas Grantham · Hear the Church · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth. Tacitus observes that the Romans vanquisht the ancient BrittainsBritons for want of Parliaments.
With rule
… Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth. Tacitus observes that the Romans vanquisht the ancient BrittainsBritons for want of Parliaments.
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… first son Arthur, according to the name of that ancient worthy King of the BrittainsBritons; in whose acts there is truth enough to make him famous, besides that which …
With rule
… first son Arthur, according to the name of that ancient worthy King of the BrittainsBritons; in whose acts there is truth enough to make him famous, besides that which …
Edward Leigh · Observations of all the Kings of England · p. 154 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.