Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50992 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

britayneBritain

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

Puritas changed it: 32 times in 13 works
Consistency: 100% (32 of 32)
Reach if approved: ~34 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: britain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 32 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (32 changes in 13 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 32)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by examples of the eldest age. As for the history of Lucius king of BritayneBritain, that sent to Eleutherius for preachers, if it were true, it maketh nothinge for …
With rule
… by examples of the eldest age. As for the history of Lucius king of BritayneBritain, that sent to Eleutherius for preachers, if it were true, it maketh nothinge for …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 286 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the citye of Rome an other of all the worlde beside. Both France and BritayneBritain and Africa, and Persia, and the Easte, and India, and all barbarous nations worship …
With rule
… the citye of Rome an other of all the worlde beside. Both France and BritayneBritain and Africa, and Persia, and the Easte, and India, and all barbarous nations worship …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 373 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reade a Psalme, neyther yet speake Englyshe, beynge an allyen, an Armoricall or frenche BritayneBritain. And to excuse hys most beastly ignoraunce, his own self was cōpel led, I …
With rule
… reade a Psalme, neyther yet speake Englyshe, beynge an allyen, an Armoricall or frenche BritayneBritain. And to excuse hys most beastly ignoraunce, his own self was cōpel led, I …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely, dwellyng in lytle BritayneBritain ſtr…te, by great S. Battelmewes. (⸫)
With rule
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely, dwellyng in lytle BritayneBritain ſtr…te, by great S. Battelmewes. (⸫)
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
Printed
Into BritayneBritain
With rule
Into BritayneBritain
Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader
Printed
… what am I but duſt and a very worme? And the King of great BritayneBritain hath wiſely obſerued in his firſt booke, that the Emperour Mauricius had commaunded this …
With rule
… what am I but duſt and a very worme? And the King of great BritayneBritain hath wiſely obſerued in his firſt booke, that the Emperour Mauricius had commaunded this …
Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
Kinges of BritayneBritain from Lucius to the Saxons. 108.
With rule
Kinges of BritayneBritain from Lucius to the Saxons. 108.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… king and hys Lords was for the deliueraunce of the towne of Breſte in BritayneBritain. But our prelates had an other ſecrete miſtery a bruyng. They could not at …
With rule
… king and hys Lords was for the deliueraunce of the towne of Breſte in BritayneBritain. But our prelates had an other ſecrete miſtery a bruyng. They could not at …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 363 · 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.