Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50423 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

turkieTurkey

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

Puritas changed it: 156 times in 109 works
Consistency: 97.5% (156 of 160)
Reach if approved: ~168 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: turkey
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (156 changes in 109 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 156)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Merchants, that traffique in TurkieTurkey, and get wealth in TurkieTurkey, yet plant not in TurkieTurkey, but transport for England. Gods people are not like the first Indians, that hang'd …
With rule
… Merchants, that traffique in TurkieTurkey, and get wealth in TurkieTurkey, yet plant not in TurkieTurkey, but transport for England. Gods people are not like the first Indians, that hang'd …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 631 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all English men, leaving that ancient and very graue and comely attire, should weare TurkieTurkey coats, or a souldiers weed, as it is called: who would ever approue this …
With rule
… all English men, leaving that ancient and very graue and comely attire, should weare TurkieTurkey coats, or a souldiers weed, as it is called: who would ever approue this …
William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Navie which lay upon the Sea Hellespont (now called Saint Georges Arme, which divideth TurkieTurkey from Greece) sendeth Letters to the King of Hungary to perswade him to disannull …
With rule
… Navie which lay upon the Sea Hellespont (now called Saint Georges Arme, which divideth TurkieTurkey from Greece) sendeth Letters to the King of Hungary to perswade him to disannull …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gospel be gone? wherein doth England exceed other places? there is more wealth in TurkieTurkey then in England: And the Heathen Nations have more of the glory of the …
With rule
… Gospel be gone? wherein doth England exceed other places? there is more wealth in TurkieTurkey then in England: And the Heathen Nations have more of the glory of the …
Edmund Calamy · Sermon Preached 28 December 1662 · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
TurkieTurkey-wheat. Millium Indicum.
With rule
TurkieTurkey-wheat. Millium Indicum.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
With tapistrie be hung, in TurkieTurkey sought,
With rule
With tapistrie be hung, in TurkieTurkey sought,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… A man that neuer stirred foote out of England holds and enioyes land in TurkieTurkey: but how comes it to be his? Thus: the Emperour was willing and content …
With rule
… A man that neuer stirred foote out of England holds and enioyes land in TurkieTurkey: but how comes it to be his? Thus: the Emperour was willing and content …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as is subiect to the Turke, for his Prouince: To the second, Natolia or TurkieTurkey: to the third, Syria and Egypt, with the parts adioyning. There were but two …
With rule
… as is subiect to the Turke, for his Prouince: To the second, Natolia or TurkieTurkey: to the third, Syria and Egypt, with the parts adioyning. There were but two …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 266 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 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.

An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue A44384

Printed
a turkieTurkey, Meleágris, idis f.
With rule
a turkieTurkey, Meleágris, idis f.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
a turkieTurkey-cock, Gallus Numídicus.
With rule
a turkieTurkey-cock, Gallus Numídicus.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
a turkieTurkey-hen, Gallína Numídica.
With rule
a turkieTurkey-hen, Gallína Numídica.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 189 · Open in the reader