Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50585 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bruxelsBrussels

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

Puritas changed it: 100 times in 50 works
Consistency: 99.0% (100 of 101)
Reach if approved: ~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: brussels
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 50 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Ship with Count Swartenzburgh, the Emperor's Ambaſſador, rerurning hence into Flanders. Being come to BruxelsBrussels, he recants his Religion, and rails bitterly on the Engliſh Church. Here he ſtayed …
With rule
… Ship with Count Swartenzburgh, the Emperor's Ambaſſador, rerurning hence into Flanders. Being come to BruxelsBrussels, he recants his Religion, and rails bitterly on the Engliſh Church. Here he ſtayed …
William Gearing · The History of the Church of Great Britain · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
He was born at BruxelsBrussels in Brabant Anno Christi 1514. A famous Physician. He professed Anatomy at Basil, Padua, and …
With rule
He was born at BruxelsBrussels in Brabant Anno Christi 1514. A famous Physician. He professed Anatomy at Basil, Padua, and …
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… elſewhere, conuinces it too much. But my example (ywis) ſhall cleere his Veſtalls of BruxelsBrussels, and all other Votaries. Maſter Hall was abſent (ſome three Moneths) in France; Fleſh …
With rule
… elſewhere, conuinces it too much. But my example (ywis) ſhall cleere his Veſtalls of BruxelsBrussels, and all other Votaries. Maſter Hall was abſent (ſome three Moneths) in France; Fleſh …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 732 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both genders, plant-animals, partly animals, partly plants: like a ſort of Nuns at BruxelsBrussels, partly regular partly ſecular; in the morning wearing the cowles and habit of Recluſes …
With rule
… both genders, plant-animals, partly animals, partly plants: like a ſort of Nuns at BruxelsBrussels, partly regular partly ſecular; in the morning wearing the cowles and habit of Recluſes …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Latomus, a principall Captaine of the Uniuersity of Louan, after hee had béene at BruxelsBrussels, thinking to doe a great act against Luther and his fellowes▪ hee made such …
With rule
… Latomus, a principall Captaine of the Uniuersity of Louan, after hee had béene at BruxelsBrussels, thinking to doe a great act against Luther and his fellowes▪ hee made such …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 382 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all the Earls of England. Also Iohn Lord Sturton, Henry Lord Compton, and at BruxelsBrussels the Lord Paget.
With rule
… all the Earls of England. Also Iohn Lord Sturton, Henry Lord Compton, and at BruxelsBrussels the Lord Paget.
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
BruxelsBrussels described.
With rule
BruxelsBrussels described.
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · Open in the reader
Printed
Dunkirk, Ostend, Liſle Ipers, Cambrary, Ghent, BruxelsBrussels, Bruges, Antwerp, and all other parts of Flanders.
With rule
Dunkirk, Ostend, Liſle Ipers, Cambrary, Ghent, BruxelsBrussels, Bruges, Antwerp, and all other parts of Flanders.
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 338 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.