Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50842 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

norweyNorway

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

Puritas changed it: 55 times in 12 works
Consistency: 100% (55 of 55)
Reach if approved: ~58 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 55 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (55 changes in 12 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 55)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ayre as the fire. As little hurt receiueth it by the frozen yce of NorweyNorway, as by the scorching sands of Affricke. As little also doth vyce anoye it …
With rule
… ayre as the fire. As little hurt receiueth it by the frozen yce of NorweyNorway, as by the scorching sands of Affricke. As little also doth vyce anoye it …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very indiscreetely raising Cambalu to the height of threescore degrees, and paralelling Cathay with NorweyNorway: which cannot stand with other things thereof reported, howsoeuer the Tartars themselues were happily …
With rule
… very indiscreetely raising Cambalu to the height of threescore degrees, and paralelling Cathay with NorweyNorway: which cannot stand with other things thereof reported, howsoeuer the Tartars themselues were happily …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 345 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Then he craved aid of the Scots; and afterwards of Harald Harfager, King of NorweyNorway, who was excercising Piracy about the Orchades; with him he prevailed, and so uniting …
With rule
… Then he craved aid of the Scots; and afterwards of Harald Harfager, King of NorweyNorway, who was excercising Piracy about the Orchades; with him he prevailed, and so uniting …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of William the Conquerer · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mercians put Toſti to flight, p. 300. they give Battel to Harold Harfager, King of NorweyNorway: but are put to the worſt, p. 302. they refuſe to ſet up Edgar, and …
With rule
… Mercians put Toſti to flight, p. 300. they give Battel to Harold Harfager, King of NorweyNorway: but are put to the worſt, p. 302. they refuſe to ſet up Edgar, and …
John Milton · The History of Britain · Open in the reader
Printed
… Williams Edition of the Confessor's Laws, when he inclined so much to them of NorweyNorway; Universi Compatriotae Regni, qui Leges Edixerant, came and besought him not to change their …
With rule
… Williams Edition of the Confessor's Laws, when he inclined so much to them of NorweyNorway; Universi Compatriotae Regni, qui Leges Edixerant, came and besought him not to change their …
John Sadler · Rights of the Kingdom · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is observed before) and great Supplies of Scots from the Islands of Ireland and NorweyNorway, whither they were driven: And the Picts, to prevent all Suspicion of Treachery surrendred …
With rule
… is observed before) and great Supplies of Scots from the Islands of Ireland and NorweyNorway, whither they were driven: And the Picts, to prevent all Suspicion of Treachery surrendred …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Antiquities of the British Churches · p. 292 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for their King; which they promiſing to do, the next year he ſailed into NorweyNorway with 50 ſhips, thruſt Olaus out of his kingdom, by conſent of his Nobles, and …
With rule
… for their King; which they promiſing to do, the next year he ſailed into NorweyNorway with 50 ſhips, thruſt Olaus out of his kingdom, by conſent of his Nobles, and …
William Prynne · Vindication of Fundamental Rights and Governments of English Freemen · p. 236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very great famine, which deſtroyed many of them; ſoon after the Pagan Nations from NorweyNorway and Denmark invaded and miſerably deſtroyed thoſe of Northumberland and Lindesfa…ne, horribly deſtroying …
With rule
… very great famine, which deſtroyed many of them; ſoon after the Pagan Nations from NorweyNorway and Denmark invaded and miſerably deſtroyed thoſe of Northumberland and Lindesfa…ne, horribly deſtroying …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 2 · p. 62 · 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.