Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #53084 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

grammergrammar

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 636 times in 318 works
Consistency: 100% (636 of 636)
Reach if approved: ~668 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: grammar
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 636 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (636 changes in 318 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 636)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to vphold their fond reall preſence by. Sure I am neyther any Dictionarie or GrammerGrammar in the worlde will allow them thus to expounde this worde Is. Were it …
With rule
… to vphold their fond reall preſence by. Sure I am neyther any Dictionarie or GrammerGrammar in the worlde will allow them thus to expounde this worde Is. Were it …
Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou art olde; for as in a ſchoole of learning, there are ſome in GrammerGrammar, and ſome in the Croſſe-row; ſo the greateſt Iudge in the land was …
With rule
… thou art olde; for as in a ſchoole of learning, there are ſome in GrammerGrammar, and ſome in the Croſſe-row; ſo the greateſt Iudge in the land was …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of GrammerGrammar, the rules are infinite in the Etymologie of words, and in the conſtruction of …
With rule
Of GrammerGrammar, the rules are infinite in the Etymologie of words, and in the conſtruction of …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Which words though Bellarmine would faine wrest awry, because they wring him, yet no GrammerGrammar will admit any other sense of them. From whence it is apparent that the …
With rule
… Which words though Bellarmine would faine wrest awry, because they wring him, yet no GrammerGrammar will admit any other sense of them. From whence it is apparent that the …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the vniuersities, and better prouision for the poore and nedy. But now, many GrammerGrammar scholes, and muche charytable prouision for the poore, be taken, sold, and made awaye …
With rule
… of the vniuersities, and better prouision for the poore and nedy. But now, many GrammerGrammar scholes, and muche charytable prouision for the poore, be taken, sold, and made awaye …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… Charles Duke of Aniow in the Realme of Naples, by this doubtfull construction of GrammerGrammar, Non, non Gallus superabit Appulum: which may bee Englished as doubtfully thus; No, the …
With rule
… Charles Duke of Aniow in the Realme of Naples, by this doubtfull construction of GrammerGrammar, Non, non Gallus superabit Appulum: which may bee Englished as doubtfully thus; No, the …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 397 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt ſharpe vpbreading and rebuke for ſufferance. And I ſende thée againe to the GrammerGrammar ſchole, that thou maiſt learne there what is the force of the figure called …
With rule
… moſt ſharpe vpbreading and rebuke for ſufferance. And I ſende thée againe to the GrammerGrammar ſchole, that thou maiſt learne there what is the force of the figure called …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… figures) to signifie those thinges which properly they doo not signifie, the boyes in grammergrammar schooles, who know what a metaphore is, will laugh at it. Wherefore this plaister …
With rule
… figures) to signifie those thinges which properly they doo not signifie, the boyes in grammergrammar schooles, who know what a metaphore is, will laugh at it. Wherefore this plaister …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 551 · 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.