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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7636 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

countryescountries

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

Puritas changed it
549 times in 279 works
Consistency
100% (549 of 549)
Reach if approved
~577 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: countries
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
549 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (549 changes in 279 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 549)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … therfore might soon be takē cupshort: some because the wines were hotter in those CountryesCountries then they are with vs: some because of his chāge of drinks which had …
    With rule
    … therfore might soon be takē cupshort: some because the wines were hotter in those CountryesCountries then they are with vs: some because of his chāge of drinks which had …

    Henry Smith · The First Sermon of Noahs Drunkenness · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … East raigned 50. yeeres, and recouered the Isle of Candie from the Saracens, and the CountryesCountries of Apulia, and Calabria from Otto as is said, after whom his Brother Constantine …
    With rule
    … East raigned 50. yeeres, and recouered the Isle of Candie from the Saracens, and the CountryesCountries of Apulia, and Calabria from Otto as is said, after whom his Brother Constantine …

    Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a civill Magistrate is affirmed to bee the governour of his owne dominions and countryescountries; by common intendement this must needs be understood of a civill governement, and may …
    With rule
    … a civill Magistrate is affirmed to bee the governour of his owne dominions and countryescountries; by common intendement this must needs be understood of a civill governement, and may …

    James Ussher · Speech 22 November 1622 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … these many yeares: looke to those Churches of God in Fraunce, and the lowe countryescountries of Germany, which within these twenty yeares haue bene for the most part planted …
    With rule
    … these many yeares: looke to those Churches of God in Fraunce, and the lowe countryescountries of Germany, which within these twenty yeares haue bene for the most part planted …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … he hath. One is this; The Apo…les appointed Ministers to whole Cities and CountryesCountries adioyning, to labor ſo far as they …ere able the converſion of all. True …
    With rule
    … he hath. One is this; The Apo…les appointed Ministers to whole Cities and CountryesCountries adioyning, to labor ſo far as they …ere able the converſion of all. True …

    Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … be …yed now to no place nor country any more, but all places and countryescountries I haue now conſecrated to my ſeruice, and euery place ſhall hereafter, be as …
    With rule
    … be …yed now to no place nor country any more, but all places and countryescountries I haue now conſecrated to my ſeruice, and euery place ſhall hereafter, be as …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and vniuersally all other primates should haue al the gouernance & preheminence of al ye countryescountries that were nere vnto them, as ye byshop of Rome had in Italy, &c.
    With rule
    … and vniuersally all other primates should haue al the gouernance & preheminence of al ye countryescountries that were nere vnto them, as ye byshop of Rome had in Italy, &c.

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Bishops of Rome, while they liued; because that the Apostles, went often into other countryescountries to preach Christ; & the city of Rome might not be without a Bishop. As …
    With rule
    … Bishops of Rome, while they liued; because that the Apostles, went often into other countryescountries to preach Christ; & the city of Rome might not be without a Bishop. As …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 267 · 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.