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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7928 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tayletail

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

Puritas changed it
479 times in 248 works
Consistency
90.0% (479 of 532)
Reach if approved
~560 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: tail
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
533 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (479 changes in 248 works, 90.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 479)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … broad flaming eyes, & a bloody huge tongue hanging downe to his nauill, a wreathed tayletail turned vp to his backe, ſhewing: his filthy part behind, out of which came …
    With rule
    … broad flaming eyes, & a bloody huge tongue hanging downe to his nauill, a wreathed tayletail turned vp to his backe, ſhewing: his filthy part behind, out of which came …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … honey to intice, and waxe to inflame; but withall, a deadly ſting in the tayletail of it. And like as it is with the roſe, when the leaves are …
    With rule
    … honey to intice, and waxe to inflame; but withall, a deadly ſting in the tayletail of it. And like as it is with the roſe, when the leaves are …

    Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 144 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and as soone as he lookes vpon his féete, he casts mée downe his tayletail and is ashamed. Euen so, as long as we thinke vpon the liuelinesse of …
    With rule
    … and as soone as he lookes vpon his féete, he casts mée downe his tayletail and is ashamed. Euen so, as long as we thinke vpon the liuelinesse of …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 287 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Lord and of Gideon, Iudg. 7.20. if (I ſay) ye ſhal ſo cut of the tayletail of the ſaid whore of Rome, and (as it were) her branch and ruſh …
    With rule
    … Lord and of Gideon, Iudg. 7.20. if (I ſay) ye ſhal ſo cut of the tayletail of the ſaid whore of Rome, and (as it were) her branch and ruſh …

    Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Hee is like a Bee or an Epigram, all his sting is in his tayletail. Hee is troubled with a thousand diseases, and is attended on with more plagues …
    With rule
    … Hee is like a Bee or an Epigram, all his sting is in his tayletail. Hee is troubled with a thousand diseases, and is attended on with more plagues …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … couching one …are close to the ground and covering the other with his voluminous tayletail.
    With rule
    … couching one …are close to the ground and covering the other with his voluminous tayletail.

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but they which fleeth into thys desert from the Dragon / forsakynge both head and tayletail / both suggestions / and lawes / both customes and constytucions. For all are deuyllyshe. Non other …
    With rule
    … but they which fleeth into thys desert from the Dragon / forsakynge both head and tayletail / both suggestions / and lawes / both customes and constytucions. For all are deuyllyshe. Non other …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Nor ſuffer them ſelues to be ſcorned of wycked pryeſtes, feeter for a plough tayletail, then a pulpit. The ſounde and onely proofe of true relygyon, is the conference …
    With rule
    … Nor ſuffer them ſelues to be ſcorned of wycked pryeſtes, feeter for a plough tayletail, then a pulpit. The ſounde and onely proofe of true relygyon, is the conference …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (53)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 40 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … of them a thousand diuers parts. Outwardly, Head, Eyes, Nose, Eares, Téeth, Tongue, Féete, TayleTail, and so foorth: and inwardly the Heart, the Lungs, the Stomacke, the Liuer, the …
    With rule
    … of them a thousand diuers parts. Outwardly, Head, Eyes, Nose, Eares, Téeth, Tongue, Féete, TayleTail, and so foorth: and inwardly the Heart, the Lungs, the Stomacke, the Liuer, the …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and that was a kind of Lechecraft, which as yet had neither Head nor TayleTail. Also the brute beasts taught men diuers Herbes and remedies by little and litle …
    With rule
    … and that was a kind of Lechecraft, which as yet had neither Head nor TayleTail. Also the brute beasts taught men diuers Herbes and remedies by little and litle …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Uynes hath deuised; nor that is sponne, weaued, or hamered; nor that hath a TayleTail cut with a Razor; nor an Image turned arsyuersie, nor some iuggling tricke to …
    With rule
    … Uynes hath deuised; nor that is sponne, weaued, or hamered; nor that hath a TayleTail cut with a Razor; nor an Image turned arsyuersie, nor some iuggling tricke to …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 367 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

  • Printed
    His TayleTail, beating his sides and loynes, cals out
    With rule
    His TayleTail, beating his sides and loynes, cals out

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 315 · Open in the reader

Christs Victory Over the Dragon A13533

  • Printed
    TayleTail of the Dragon, what, and who, 228
    With rule
    TayleTail of the Dragon, what, and who, 228

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

  • Printed
    … bellies, and troupes of loyterers: they be Scorpions for cloſe poyſonyng doctrine: And the TayleTail is the Prophet that ſpeaketh lyes. They are for the Warres which they make …
    With rule
    … bellies, and troupes of loyterers: they be Scorpions for cloſe poyſonyng doctrine: And the TayleTail is the Prophet that ſpeaketh lyes. They are for the Warres which they make …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

  • Printed
    Fiftly, The Armes, Legges and Shoulders of it, or the TayleTail rather, (for the Sting and Poyſon of theſe Scorpions is in their TayleTail) are …
    With rule
    Fiftly, The Armes, Legges and Shoulders of it, or the TayleTail rather, (for the Sting and Poyſon of theſe Scorpions is in their TayleTail) are …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 530 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the TayleTail rather, (for the Sting and Poyſon of theſe Scorpions is in their TayleTail) are a Rabble of falſe teachers, Falſe prophets, as he termeth them.
    With rule
    … the TayleTail rather, (for the Sting and Poyſon of theſe Scorpions is in their TayleTail) are a Rabble of falſe teachers, Falſe prophets, as he termeth them.

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 530 · Open in the reader

The Orphans Legacy A42922

  • Printed
    … to have it. If a Preſentment to a Church happen to a Tenant in TayleTail, and he die before he Preſents; his Executor, not his Iſſue in TayleTail ſhall …
    With rule
    … to have it. If a Preſentment to a Church happen to a Tenant in TayleTail, and he die before he Preſents; his Executor, not his Iſſue in TayleTail ſhall …

    John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in TayleTail, and he die before he Preſents; his Executor, not his Iſſue in TayleTail ſhall Preſent, becauſe the Chattel is not deveſted; Likewiſe if a Termer have a …
    With rule
    … in TayleTail, and he die before he Preſents; his Executor, not his Iſſue in TayleTail ſhall Preſent, becauſe the Chattel is not deveſted; Likewiſe if a Termer have a …

    John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · p. 82 · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

  • Printed
    … Gods hands cannot long spare in his anger, to strike the Head and the TayleTail; the inobedient Prince, and sinfull People: For as God is unchangeable and true, so …
    With rule
    … Gods hands cannot long spare in his anger, to strike the Head and the TayleTail; the inobedient Prince, and sinfull People: For as God is unchangeable and true, so …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 337 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … profit, would to God that you had therewith the Kowll, the Vaile and the TayleTail joyned withall, that so you might appear in your own colours. This libertie did …
    With rule
    … profit, would to God that you had therewith the Kowll, the Vaile and the TayleTail joyned withall, that so you might appear in your own colours. This libertie did …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 375 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 22-26 A81199

  • Printed
    … word which we render Arcturus (Chap: 9.9.) hath nothing at all in it ſignifying, The TayleTail of a Beare. But here in this text, the word properly ſignifyeth a crooked …
    With rule
    … word which we render Arcturus (Chap: 9.9.) hath nothing at all in it ſignifying, The TayleTail of a Beare. But here in this text, the word properly ſignifyeth a crooked …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 22-26 · p. 810 · Open in the reader