Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51086 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

worceterWorcester

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

Puritas changed it: 24 times in 7 works
Consistency: 92.3% (24 of 26)
Reach if approved: ~27 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 26 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (24 changes in 7 works, 92.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 24)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of Canterburyes boke: whych is farre from being anſwered, eyther by the byſhop of WorceterWorcester his boke in engliſh, or Marcus. … C. in latyn, y^• thou nedeſt nomore to …
With rule
… of Canterburyes boke: whych is farre from being anſwered, eyther by the byſhop of WorceterWorcester his boke in engliſh, or Marcus. … C. in latyn, y^• thou nedeſt nomore to …
John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶Imprynted at WorceterWorcester by Ihon Oſwen.
With rule
¶Imprynted at WorceterWorcester by Ihon Oſwen.
Henrich Bullinger · Defense of the Baptism of Children · Open in the reader
Printed
Living the 23. Bishop of WorceterWorcester, Anno. 1040. was accused for procuring the death of Alfred, the eldest sonne of King …
With rule
Living the 23. Bishop of WorceterWorcester, Anno. 1040. was accused for procuring the death of Alfred, the eldest sonne of King …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… actes and dedes done of their Dioceſſanes, after the exāple of the Chaunceler of WorceterWorcester, which after M. Tracie was buried (of pure zeale & loue hardly) tooke vp the …
With rule
… actes and dedes done of their Dioceſſanes, after the exāple of the Chaunceler of WorceterWorcester, which after M. Tracie was buried (of pure zeale & loue hardly) tooke vp the …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 429 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ At WorceterWorcester in y^e hygh ſtrete, by Ihon Ofwen.
With rule
¶ At WorceterWorcester in y^e hygh ſtrete, by Ihon Ofwen.
Henrich Bullinger · Dialogue Between the Libertine or Rebel Anabaptist and the Christian · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ralfe, Thomas Rushooke, Iohn Fishar…, Lewes, Iohn Trevaus, Bishops of Bath and Wels, Exeter, WorceterWorcester, Hereford, Chichester, Rochester, Bangor, and Sant Assaph, Alcredus, Geoffry, Thomas de Corbridge, Alexander Nevill …
With rule
… Ralfe, Thomas Rushooke, Iohn Fishar…, Lewes, Iohn Trevaus, Bishops of Bath and Wels, Exeter, WorceterWorcester, Hereford, Chichester, Rochester, Bangor, and Sant Assaph, Alcredus, Geoffry, Thomas de Corbridge, Alexander Nevill …
William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
About the 13. yéere of this kings raigne, he ſent Aldred biſhop of WorceterWorcester, to the Emperour Henricus the fourth, praying him that he would ſend to the …
With rule
About the 13. yéere of this kings raigne, he ſent Aldred biſhop of WorceterWorcester, to the Emperour Henricus the fourth, praying him that he would ſend to the …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… after, but dyed of griefe before they came. In his time Vrsus Earle of WorceterWorcester had built a Castle at WorceterWorcester to some prejudice of the Monkes, the Ditch …
With rule
… after, but dyed of griefe before they came. In his time Vrsus Earle of WorceterWorcester had built a Castle at WorceterWorcester to some prejudice of the Monkes, the Ditch …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 183 · 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.