Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50538 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

almanacksAlmanacs

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

Puritas changed it: 119 times in 94 works
Consistency: 96.7% (119 of 123)
Reach if approved: ~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: almanacs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (119 changes in 94 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Moon, which happens next after the one and twentieth day of March.] The common AlmanacksAlmanacs tell you it is often false.
With rule
… Moon, which happens next after the one and twentieth day of March.] The common AlmanacksAlmanacs tell you it is often false.
Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there are many people look more to the fullfilling of what ſuch Prognoſticks and AlmanacksAlmanacs ſay, then to the Scripture, as if Saturn and Jupiter did reign, therefore the …
With rule
… there are many people look more to the fullfilling of what ſuch Prognoſticks and AlmanacksAlmanacs ſay, then to the Scripture, as if Saturn and Jupiter did reign, therefore the …
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 396 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpecial ſtar as ruling the ſpecial parts of mans body, as you ſee in AlmanacksAlmanacs; who tell us alſo, That in the body of man, the Sun anſwers the …
With rule
… ſpecial ſtar as ruling the ſpecial parts of mans body, as you ſee in AlmanacksAlmanacs; who tell us alſo, That in the body of man, the Sun anſwers the …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 38-42 · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who matters no more engagements diſpenſed with by his Holines, than we doe our AlmanacksAlmanacs out of date. I ſhould be glad to be informed what we could doe …
With rule
… who matters no more engagements diſpenſed with by his Holines, than we doe our AlmanacksAlmanacs out of date. I ſhould be glad to be informed what we could doe …
Joseph Hill · The Interest of These United Provinces · Open in the reader
Printed
… any one that should look into the little Diary that he kept in his AlmanacksAlmanacs would see that there was with him, No day without a Line; he was …
With rule
… any one that should look into the little Diary that he kept in his AlmanacksAlmanacs would see that there was with him, No day without a Line; he was …
Cotton Mather · The Life and Death of John Eliot · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Antiquaries and Heralds of the English nation. But if slighted, vilified, neglected, like old AlmanacksAlmanacs or fashions grown quite out of use and request (though meer Novelties in their …
With rule
… Antiquaries and Heralds of the English nation. But if slighted, vilified, neglected, like old AlmanacksAlmanacs or fashions grown quite out of use and request (though meer Novelties in their …
William Prynne · A Brief Register Calendar Part 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their former parts and pains are forgotten, and they are beheld, as last years AlmanacksAlmanacs, wholly out of date.
With rule
… their former parts and pains are forgotten, and they are beheld, as last years AlmanacksAlmanacs, wholly out of date.
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yeere when the dayes decreaſe, and Chriſt when they increaſe, and thereupon alter their AlmanacksAlmanacs, &c.
With rule
… yeere when the dayes decreaſe, and Chriſt when they increaſe, and thereupon alter their AlmanacksAlmanacs, &c.
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World A09841

Printed
… a certain od month called their Intercalare month whereof mentiō is made in their almanacksAlmanacs & named it Ve-Adar: the second or posteriore Adar, wherevpon I wil not now …
With rule
… a certain od month called their Intercalare month whereof mentiō is made in their almanacksAlmanacs & named it Ve-Adar: the second or posteriore Adar, wherevpon I wil not now …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 51 · Open in the reader