Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50669 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gomorGomorrah

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

Puritas changed it: 82 times in 45 works
Consistency: 98.8% (82 of 83)
Reach if approved: ~87 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: gomor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 83 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (82 changes in 45 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 82)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… teares are as plentifull, as ſnow in ſommer? There are none. Corazin, Bethſaida, Sodome, & GomorGomorrah, with Tyre, Sydon, & Capernaum, &c. are in the lake of torments that burneth with …
With rule
… teares are as plentifull, as ſnow in ſommer? There are none. Corazin, Bethſaida, Sodome, & GomorGomorrah, with Tyre, Sydon, & Capernaum, &c. are in the lake of torments that burneth with …
William Whately · The View and Downfall of Pride · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, that they did not underſtand but were a moſt ſinfull Nation, ye… … and GomorGomorrah…ah, yet he calleth them his people and … paſſing Socleome in iniquitie, and yet …
With rule
… him, that they did not underſtand but were a moſt ſinfull Nation, ye… … and GomorGomorrah…ah, yet he calleth them his people and … paſſing Socleome in iniquitie, and yet …
John Ball · An Answer to Two Treatises of John Can · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how al the earth is by that meanes defiled & almoſt chaūged into a Sodom & GomorGomorrah. By y^• ſame reaſon alſo we condēne & puniſh all whordome w^tout exception, & we think …
With rule
… how al the earth is by that meanes defiled & almoſt chaūged into a Sodom & GomorGomorrah. By y^• ſame reaſon alſo we condēne & puniſh all whordome w^tout exception, & we think …
Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… not. Opponis mihi, &c. Thou layest vnto mee the one measure of Manna called GomorGomorrah, and wee take the bodie of Christe equallie. According to the merites of them …
With rule
… not. Opponis mihi, &c. Thou layest vnto mee the one measure of Manna called GomorGomorrah, and wee take the bodie of Christe equallie. According to the merites of them …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 443 · Open in the reader
Printed
To Sodom and GomorGomorrah, in the daye of iudgement,
With rule
To Sodom and GomorGomorrah, in the daye of iudgement,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
From Sodom and GomorGomorrah, the abhomynacyons call,
With rule
From Sodom and GomorGomorrah, the abhomynacyons call,
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… doyng here in England. Heare therfore ye Prynces of Sodome, and ye people of GomorGomorrah, thus sayth the Lord: What pleasure haue I, yea what care I for all …
With rule
… doyng here in England. Heare therfore ye Prynces of Sodome, and ye people of GomorGomorrah, thus sayth the Lord: What pleasure haue I, yea what care I for all …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… I say vnto you, it shall be easier for the land of Sodome and GomorGomorrah in the daye of iudgemente, then for that cytye. The dispisinge of Gods worde …
With rule
… I say vnto you, it shall be easier for the land of Sodome and GomorGomorrah in the daye of iudgemente, then for that cytye. The dispisinge of Gods worde …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · 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.