Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50765 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tropicksTropics

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

Puritas changed it: 68 times in 57 works
Consistency: 97.1% (68 of 70)
Reach if approved: ~74 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tropics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 70 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (68 changes in 57 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 68)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… head above the water. You cannot but remember how all Factions moved within his TropicksTropics, and had their viciſſitudes and returns: and what hopes they had ſometimes given them …
With rule
… head above the water. You cannot but remember how all Factions moved within his TropicksTropics, and had their viciſſitudes and returns: and what hopes they had ſometimes given them …
John Martin · Sermon 28 June 1660 · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or shorter, according as the Sunne ascends or descends from the Equinoctiall to the TropicksTropics.
With rule
… or shorter, according as the Sunne ascends or descends from the Equinoctiall to the TropicksTropics.
John Weemes · The Christian Synagogue · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
Past both the TropicksTropics, and through every Zone,
With rule
Past both the TropicksTropics, and through every Zone,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
… this end they ought to have an exact knowledge of the two Tekuphoth or TropicksTropics, as alſo of the two Solſtices, as it is written, They ſhall be for …
With rule
… this end they ought to have an exact knowledge of the two Tekuphoth or TropicksTropics, as alſo of the two Solſtices, as it is written, They ſhall be for …
Johann II Buxtorf · The Jewish Synagogue · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men are mounted up to their Zenith or vertical point, when go to their TropicksTropics, their turning point of time in their higheſt Elevations, a diſmal change comes upon …
With rule
… men are mounted up to their Zenith or vertical point, when go to their TropicksTropics, their turning point of time in their higheſt Elevations, a diſmal change comes upon …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 304 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say, It would be more convenient for the Inhabitants of the Earth, if the TropicksTropics stood at a greater distance, and the Sun moved further Northward and Southward, for …
With rule
… say, It would be more convenient for the Inhabitants of the Earth, if the TropicksTropics stood at a greater distance, and the Sun moved further Northward and Southward, for …
John Ray · The Wisdom of God Manifested in Creation · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of all other Bodies, most requires? Or how, when the Sun arrives at the TropicksTropics, he never goes further, either Northward or Southward, but returns towards the Equator, and …
With rule
… of all other Bodies, most requires? Or how, when the Sun arrives at the TropicksTropics, he never goes further, either Northward or Southward, but returns towards the Equator, and …
John Tillotson · Vindication of the Trinity · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to sickness; friends may die; riches may take wings. We are ever upon the TropicksTropics. The serious meditation of this, would 1. Keep us from being so deceived by the …
With rule
… to sickness; friends may die; riches may take wings. We are ever upon the TropicksTropics. The serious meditation of this, would 1. Keep us from being so deceived by the …
Thomas Watson · Heaven Taken By Storm · p. 46 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.