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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50522 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

phaeniciansPhoenicians

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

Puritas changed it
120 times in 39 works
Consistency
100% (120 of 120)
Reach if approved
~126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: phoenacians
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 39 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … against Tissaphernes, for that he cared not to send for the Navy of the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, according to his promise, nor payed them their stipends, but when pleased himself: and …
    With rule
    … against Tissaphernes, for that he cared not to send for the Navy of the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, according to his promise, nor payed them their stipends, but when pleased himself: and …

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Solomon, for the edifice of the temple. This City was firſt founded by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians who being expelled from a City, Sidonia, which they firſt inhabited by the King …
    With rule
    … Solomon, for the edifice of the temple. This City was firſt founded by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians who being expelled from a City, Sidonia, which they firſt inhabited by the King …

    William Guild · The Throne of David · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    15. The fifteenth of PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Shepheards, the first of which was Saites, nineteene: Anon, three and fortie: Pachnan, threescore …
    With rule
    15. The fifteenth of PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Shepheards, the first of which was Saites, nineteene: Anon, three and fortie: Pachnan, threescore …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 489 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Enterpe. Hee ſayes that the Egyptians were circumciſed in his time, and alſo the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Æthopians, and Cholchians. To which Nations, how circumciſion was derived, it is an eaſie …
    With rule
    … Enterpe. Hee ſayes that the Egyptians were circumciſed in his time, and alſo the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Æthopians, and Cholchians. To which Nations, how circumciſion was derived, it is an eaſie …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Oration in the Praise of Divinity · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and Sorcery, and are said first to Teach the use of Letters to the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, though the Magi, and those that were stiled their Priests, strugled all that in …
    With rule
    … and Sorcery, and are said first to Teach the use of Letters to the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, though the Magi, and those that were stiled their Priests, strugled all that in …

    Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … other great light, made by God to rule the night, Gen. 1.16. called by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians the Queen of Heaven; by others the Wife of the Sun, for the Moon …
    With rule
    … other great light, made by God to rule the night, Gen. 1.16. called by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians the Queen of Heaven; by others the Wife of the Sun, for the Moon …

    William Gearing · The Eye and Wheel of Providence · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of Hinnom, there was a place where the Iewes ſometime, in imitation of the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, uſed a moſt cruell, barbarous, kinde of rites, burnt children alive, putting them in …
    With rule
    … of Hinnom, there was a place where the Iewes ſometime, in imitation of the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, uſed a moſt cruell, barbarous, kinde of rites, burnt children alive, putting them in …

    Henry Hammond · A Practical Catechism · p. 178 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a Picture or a Painted Brat) he would have to be called by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Berat Anac, or the Field of Tin and Lead.
    With rule
    … a Picture or a Painted Brat) he would have to be called by the PhaeniciansPhoenicians, Berat Anac, or the Field of Tin and Lead.

    John Sadler · Rights of the Kingdom · p. 43 · 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.