Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50716 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ascalonAskelon

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

Puritas changed it: 74 times in 49 works
Consistency: 100% (74 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: ascalon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (74 changes in 49 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 74)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… their countrey Palestina, which contained five regions, according to five principall Cities, of Gaza, AscalonAskelon, Gath, Accaron, Azotus: all bordering upon the Mediterranean sea. 2. These Philistimes came of the …
With rule
… their countrey Palestina, which contained five regions, according to five principall Cities, of Gaza, AscalonAskelon, Gath, Accaron, Azotus: all bordering upon the Mediterranean sea. 2. These Philistimes came of the …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… further proceeding, dismantles all the best Townes that were neare it: as Porphyria, Caesarea, AscalonAskelon, Gaza; but of Ioppa King Richard takes a care, and placeth in it a …
With rule
… further proceeding, dismantles all the best Townes that were neare it: as Porphyria, Caesarea, AscalonAskelon, Gaza; but of Ioppa King Richard takes a care, and placeth in it a …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Oh tell it not in Gath, oh publish it not in the streets of AscalonAskelon, that other Countries (if possible) might neither hear nor know what Christians, what Protestants …
With rule
… Oh tell it not in Gath, oh publish it not in the streets of AscalonAskelon, that other Countries (if possible) might neither hear nor know what Christians, what Protestants …
Samuel Crossman · Two Sermons in Bristol · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Land, the great sea shore: as A…on or Ptolemais, Ierus. … …ol. 60. col. 2. AscalonAskelon, Idem Sheviith fol. 36.3. and divers others, but all things computed, no fitter place in …
With rule
… the Land, the great sea shore: as A…on or Ptolemais, Ierus. … …ol. 60. col. 2. AscalonAskelon, Idem Sheviith fol. 36.3. and divers others, but all things computed, no fitter place in …
John Lightfoot · The Harmony Chronicle and Order of the New Testament · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
and they of the plain, the Philiſtines,] i.e. thoſe five Lordſhips, Gath, Gaza, AſcalonAskelon, Ekron, and Azotus, all which countrey (called Sarona, Acts 9.) Augustus gave to Herod the …
With rule
and they of the plain, the Philiſtines,] i.e. thoſe five Lordſhips, Gath, Gaza, AſcalonAskelon, Ekron, and Azotus, all which countrey (called Sarona, Acts 9.) Augustus gave to Herod the …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
… City of Cyprus, received its name from Urania Venus, whoſe worſhip was tranſlated from AſcalonAskelon into Cyprus, by the Phenicians, as Herodotus writes. Idalium a town of Cyprus ſeems …
With rule
… City of Cyprus, received its name from Urania Venus, whoſe worſhip was tranſlated from AſcalonAskelon into Cyprus, by the Phenicians, as Herodotus writes. Idalium a town of Cyprus ſeems …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thence king Richard went to Ioppe, & then to AſcalonAskelon, where he foūd Ioppe forſaken, & AſcalonAskelon thrown to the ground, and the whole land of Syria forſaken: throughout all which …
With rule
… thence king Richard went to Ioppe, & then to AſcalonAskelon, where he foūd Ioppe forſaken, & AſcalonAskelon thrown to the ground, and the whole land of Syria forſaken: throughout all which …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and of Ioseph in Egipt, together with the well of woonderfull antiquitie neare to AscalonAskelon, do giue vs assurance both of their abode in Palestine, and of their remouing …
With rule
… and of Ioseph in Egipt, together with the well of woonderfull antiquitie neare to AscalonAskelon, do giue vs assurance both of their abode in Palestine, and of their remouing …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 462 · 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.