Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7968 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

storyesstories

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

Puritas changed it: 104 times in 62 works
Consistency: 82.5% (104 of 126)
Reach if approved: ~132 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stories
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 126 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (104 changes in 62 works, 82.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 104)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Chriſt lorde / and canſt bable and talke of the ſcripture / ād knoweſt all the ſtoryesstories of the byble. Yet ſhalt thou there by never knowe thine election or whether …
With rule
… Chriſt lorde / and canſt bable and talke of the ſcripture / ād knoweſt all the ſtoryesstories of the byble. Yet ſhalt thou there by never knowe thine election or whether …
William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · Open in the reader
Printed
And ſo are thoſe thynges and ſtoryesstories, alſo whyche credyble auctoures bothe Grekes and Latins haue wrytten of the bloudye dominion …
With rule
And ſo are thoſe thynges and ſtoryesstories, alſo whyche credyble auctoures bothe Grekes and Latins haue wrytten of the bloudye dominion …
Henrich Bullinger · Commentary on 2 Thessalonians · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tomuch Suffered by his greevous yoke and unjuſt uſurpations (I need not Quote old ſtoryesstories Wee haue a certaine King at preſent ſtruggling in the Eccleſiaſtical Net) But this …
With rule
… tomuch Suffered by his greevous yoke and unjuſt uſurpations (I need not Quote old ſtoryesstories Wee haue a certaine King at preſent ſtruggling in the Eccleſiaſtical Net) But this …
Thomas Beverley · Tidings of Peace · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… truth and substance of what concerns Transactions with Alexander, concerning which so many fabulous storyesstories have been spread abroad.
With rule
… truth and substance of what concerns Transactions with Alexander, concerning which so many fabulous storyesstories have been spread abroad.
Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would make a mannes heare to ſtande vp vpon his head to heare the ſtoryesstories of them read. But God ordeyned it in ſuch wiſe, too the ende it …
With rule
… would make a mannes heare to ſtande vp vpon his head to heare the ſtoryesstories of them read. But God ordeyned it in ſuch wiſe, too the ende it …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beeing Crucifyed, was made no greater then Andrewe, who was crucifyed also, if the storyesstories of both be true,
With rule
… beeing Crucifyed, was made no greater then Andrewe, who was crucifyed also, if the storyesstories of both be true,
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nobility and dignityes and ouerthrow order and ſtates: and then they tell a thouſand ſtoryesstories to them all to incenſe the King and Nobles againſt that poore company of …
With rule
… nobility and dignityes and ouerthrow order and ſtates: and then they tell a thouſand ſtoryesstories to them all to incenſe the King and Nobles againſt that poore company of …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Next, ſeeing that not onely Chriſt hath foretolde, but alſo the olde and new ſtoryesstories witneſſe, that this gyft, was common both to true, and alſo to falſe Prophetes …
With rule
… Next, ſeeing that not onely Chriſt hath foretolde, but alſo the olde and new ſtoryesstories witneſſe, that this gyft, was common both to true, and alſo to falſe Prophetes …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Several Poems A29149

Printed
Of her what worth in StoryesStories to be ſeen,
With rule
Of her what worth in StoryesStories to be ſeen,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 213 · Open in the reader

The Life and Death of Mr Badman A30164

Printed
Since you are entred upon StoryesStories, I also will tell you one, the which, though I heard it not with …
With rule
Since you are entred upon StoryesStories, I also will tell you one, the which, though I heard it not with …
John Bunyan · The Life and Death of Mr Badman · p. 23 · Open in the reader

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

Printed
… I remember) that W. Edmundson stopt me saying, thou hast here been telling us StoryesStories of Turks and Iewes, but what is that to thy Charge against us? we …
With rule
… I remember) that W. Edmundson stopt me saying, thou hast here been telling us StoryesStories of Turks and Iewes, but what is that to thy Charge against us? we …
Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 261 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
❧ Doctor StoryesStories Oration.
With rule
❧ Doctor StoryesStories Oration.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1875 · Open in the reader
Printed
Pollidorus Virgillius an Italian, writer of our english StoryesStories. 371
With rule
Pollidorus Virgillius an Italian, writer of our english StoryesStories. 371
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Robert Lawson, Roger Bernard Martyrs, theyr StoryesStories. 1917 1918.1919
With rule
Robert Lawson, Roger Bernard Martyrs, theyr StoryesStories. 1917 1918.1919
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Doctor StoryesStories Oration agaynst Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Caunterbury. 1875
With rule
Doctor StoryesStories Oration agaynst Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Caunterbury. 1875
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

Printed
… the greateſt deſpyſers of his Maieſtie that euer were, by his thunder: Reade the StoryesStories of the Heathen men, and ye ſhall ſee that the greateſt ſcorners of God …
With rule
… the greateſt deſpyſers of his Maieſtie that euer were, by his thunder: Reade the StoryesStories of the Heathen men, and ye ſhall ſee that the greateſt ſcorners of God …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 738 · Open in the reader