Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50735 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

canooCanoe

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

Puritas changed it: 71 times in 10 works
Consistency: 100% (71 of 71)
Reach if approved: ~75 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 71 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (71 changes in 10 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 71)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… very Disadvantagious Postures, and Carrying of them through the Difficultest Places, out of a CanooCanoe to the Shore.
With rule
… very Disadvantagious Postures, and Carrying of them through the Difficultest Places, out of a CanooCanoe to the Shore.
Cotton Mather · The Wonders of the Invisible World · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Squanakunk Swamp, till our Souldiers were past, and then with one Indian in a CanooCanoe crost the river to Pocasset. It seems the body of the Indians belonging to …
With rule
… Squanakunk Swamp, till our Souldiers were past, and then with one Indian in a CanooCanoe crost the river to Pocasset. It seems the body of the Indians belonging to …
Increase Mather · History of the War with the Indians · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… help besides what did arise from themselves, and the two men in the little CanooCanoe, which was so small that three persons durst seldom, if ever, venture in it …
With rule
… help besides what did arise from themselves, and the two men in the little CanooCanoe, which was so small that three persons durst seldom, if ever, venture in it …
Increase Mather · The Illustrious Providences in New England · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sought to save their lives by padling, but the Indians pursued them with another CanooCanoe shot at them and wounded one in his head, who fell overboard, the other …
With rule
… sought to save their lives by padling, but the Indians pursued them with another CanooCanoe shot at them and wounded one in his head, who fell overboard, the other …
Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gone farr; four of them therefore basted after those that had escap… in another CanooCanoe, and coming within shot, discharged their Guns upon them, whereby Sylvanus Davis was sor …
With rule
… gone farr; four of them therefore basted after those that had escap… in another CanooCanoe, and coming within shot, discharged their Guns upon them, whereby Sylvanus Davis was sor …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pharaoh; as alſo Gods remembring him when Swimming on the River in a little CanooCanoe made of Bulruſhes; putting him into a near Relation to the King of Egypts …
With rule
… Pharaoh; as alſo Gods remembring him when Swimming on the River in a little CanooCanoe made of Bulruſhes; putting him into a near Relation to the King of Egypts …
Joseph Estabrook · Abraham the Passenger · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
After this I Travelled away for my CanooCanoe' at the Western End of the Island, and spent near three Days e're I …
With rule
After this I Travelled away for my CanooCanoe' at the Western End of the Island, and spent near three Days e're I …
John Barnard · Ashtons Memorial · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if I could ſpy any, to come to Relieve us; and I eſpied a CanooCanoe, and by Signs invited them to come to the Shore. It proved to be …
With rule
… if I could ſpy any, to come to Relieve us; and I eſpied a CanooCanoe, and by Signs invited them to come to the Shore. It proved to be …
Cotton Mather · Humiliations Followed with Deliverances · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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