Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50437 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

switzersSwiss

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

Puritas changed it: 147 times in 83 works
Consistency: 100% (147 of 147)
Reach if approved: ~159 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (147 changes in 83 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 147)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… more value then that Adamant, found about Charles Duke of Burgundy, ſlain by the SwitzersSwiss, at the battel of Nantz, ſold for twenty thouſand Duckets, and placed, as it …
With rule
… more value then that Adamant, found about Charles Duke of Burgundy, ſlain by the SwitzersSwiss, at the battel of Nantz, ſold for twenty thouſand Duckets, and placed, as it …
Nathaniel Whiting · Old Jacobs Altar Newly Repaired · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… scarse nine, and to Spaine lesse, to England three, to all Germany, with the SwitzersSwiss, and Lowe Countries, but fifteene, and as many to all France. Lamentable it is …
With rule
… scarse nine, and to Spaine lesse, to England three, to all Germany, with the SwitzersSwiss, and Lowe Countries, but fifteene, and as many to all France. Lamentable it is …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
… country, he came to fight for his money; like the Law-logick, and the SwitzersSwiss, they are for his ſervice, that gives them the beſt ready wages: here Sathan …
With rule
… country, he came to fight for his money; like the Law-logick, and the SwitzersSwiss, they are for his ſervice, that gives them the beſt ready wages: here Sathan …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 715 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Beza, Zanchy, Bullinger, Gualter, and ſome other of the chief Divines among the SwitzersSwiss, he concludes at length, That they all had their ends upon him, for the …
With rule
… and Beza, Zanchy, Bullinger, Gualter, and ſome other of the chief Divines among the SwitzersSwiss, he concludes at length, That they all had their ends upon him, for the …
William Barrett · The Nonconformists Vindicated · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Queen in England, and made his reckoning of the Cantons that be Popish, the SwitzersSwiss, the Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Ferrara, King of Spain, and King of …
With rule
… Queen in England, and made his reckoning of the Cantons that be Popish, the SwitzersSwiss, the Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Ferrara, King of Spain, and King of …
Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · p. 408 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Subjects aſſailed near unto Meaux, where by ſpeedy flight, and the help of the SwitzersSwiss, hee hardly with life eſcaped the hands of the Conſpiratours. A. D. 1567. On the …
With rule
… Subjects aſſailed near unto Meaux, where by ſpeedy flight, and the help of the SwitzersSwiss, hee hardly with life eſcaped the hands of the Conſpiratours. A. D. 1567. On the …
William Gearing · Gods Sovereignty Displayed from Job 9:12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Bohemia and Moravia are no leſs tedious, and though the length of the SwitzersSwiss and Bohemian miles may in part be attributed to the climbing of the mountains …
With rule
… of Bohemia and Moravia are no leſs tedious, and though the length of the SwitzersSwiss and Bohemian miles may in part be attributed to the climbing of the mountains …
Edward Leigh · Three Diatribes · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… further delay to be made, but that he might restraine Armes with Armes. The SwitzersSwiss lately very wisely, that they will favour neither the French nor Emperor, but would …
With rule
… further delay to be made, but that he might restraine Armes with Armes. The SwitzersSwiss lately very wisely, that they will favour neither the French nor Emperor, but would …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 49 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.