Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7612 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beginnebegin

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 3,056 times in 814 works
Consistency: 100% (3,056 of 3,056)
Reach if approved: ~3,211 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: begin
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,056 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,056 changes in 814 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,056)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… done to the greene Tree, what ſhall bee done to the dry? If God beginnebegin with the people that call vpon his Name, what ſhall the end of the …
With rule
… done to the greene Tree, what ſhall bee done to the dry? If God beginnebegin with the people that call vpon his Name, what ſhall the end of the …
Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the radicall moisture (the oyle that fe…ds the lampe of his life) beginnebegin to dry vp: all his limbes loose their former agillitie. As the lit…le …
With rule
… and the radicall moisture (the oyle that fe…ds the lampe of his life) beginnebegin to dry vp: all his limbes loose their former agillitie. As the lit…le …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 293 · Open in the reader
Printed
… corruptible element. Yet notwithſtanding becauſe of our infirmity, it is requiſite for vs to beginnebegin at the water, that we may be lifted vp higher. For the ſigne that …
With rule
… corruptible element. Yet notwithſtanding becauſe of our infirmity, it is requiſite for vs to beginnebegin at the water, that we may be lifted vp higher. For the ſigne that …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Augustine and his fellowes did not proue by Scripture, that a visible Church should beginnebegin at Hierusalem which shoulde continue visibly to the ende of the world. I aunswer …
With rule
… Augustine and his fellowes did not proue by Scripture, that a visible Church should beginnebegin at Hierusalem which shoulde continue visibly to the ende of the world. I aunswer …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we remembring our selues, he will cease longer to forget vs; Yea, hee will beginnebegin in mercie againe to remember vs, who in wrath seemed to haue forgotten vs …
With rule
… we remembring our selues, he will cease longer to forget vs; Yea, hee will beginnebegin in mercie againe to remember vs, who in wrath seemed to haue forgotten vs …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
After them, or rather in the time of Sem, ſo ſone as wickednes did beginnebegin to ſpringe againe: God ſent faithful Abraham & taught him the ſacrifice of his ſōne …
With rule
After them, or rather in the time of Sem, ſo ſone as wickednes did beginnebegin to ſpringe againe: God ſent faithful Abraham & taught him the ſacrifice of his ſōne …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. lxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke in the morning, he taketh the day before him; but this perſon will beginnebegin at Sunne-ſet (if at all) when the gates of the Citty are ſhut …
With rule
… worke in the morning, he taketh the day before him; but this perſon will beginnebegin at Sunne-ſet (if at all) when the gates of the Citty are ſhut …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this ſpirituall Race, ſayth thus: Incipere multorum, finire paucorum: id eſt, Many will beginnebegin to runne in this godly Race, but few there are, that will hold out …
With rule
… of this ſpirituall Race, ſayth thus: Incipere multorum, finire paucorum: id eſt, Many will beginnebegin to runne in this godly Race, but few there are, that will hold out …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 40 · 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.