Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8030 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pottespots

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

Puritas changed it: 84 times in 65 works
Consistency: 92.3% (84 of 91)
Reach if approved: ~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pots
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (84 changes in 65 works, 92.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 84)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Fyll in all the pottespots, and byd me welcome hostesse
With rule
Fyll in all the pottespots, and byd me welcome hostesse
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Potter did not to the clay, of which he maketh the diuersitie of pottespots. and therefor of right hath God more power ouer man, then hath the potter …
With rule
… the Potter did not to the clay, of which he maketh the diuersitie of pottespots. and therefor of right hath God more power ouer man, then hath the potter …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vngodly rebellyōs the Iewes, whiche had rather be in Egypt among y^• gresy flesh pottespots, than to be in the seruyce of god eatyng Manna y^• celestial & Aungels foode …
With rule
… vngodly rebellyōs the Iewes, whiche had rather be in Egypt among y^• gresy flesh pottespots, than to be in the seruyce of god eatyng Manna y^• celestial & Aungels foode …
Thomas Becon · News Out of Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… and blacke in the hand; in the greenest grasse lyethhid the greatest Serpents: painted pottespots commonly hold deadly poyson: and in the cleerest water the vgliest Tode; and the …
With rule
… and blacke in the hand; in the greenest grasse lyethhid the greatest Serpents: painted pottespots commonly hold deadly poyson: and in the cleerest water the vgliest Tode; and the …
Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſellers: the one equall with the other, of this are the litle boxes and pottespots full of ſwete oyntmentes and ſauours, of this are their purſſes filled, for this …
With rule
… ſellers: the one equall with the other, of this are the litle boxes and pottespots full of ſwete oyntmentes and ſauours, of this are their purſſes filled, for this …
Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thynke we: we woulde be agayne in Egypt, and ſyt by the greaſy fleſhe pottespots, to eate agayne our garlike, onions, and leekes. Sithen Gods goſpell came amongeſt vs …
With rule
… thynke we: we woulde be agayne in Egypt, and ſyt by the greaſy fleſhe pottespots, to eate agayne our garlike, onions, and leekes. Sithen Gods goſpell came amongeſt vs …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… into the body of Eue. If the water had beene put out of the pottespots, and wine put in for the water, we might haue saide that the wine …
With rule
… into the body of Eue. If the water had beene put out of the pottespots, and wine put in for the water, we might haue saide that the wine …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other my brethren, children of the ſame father, ſeruaunte of the ſame Lord, and pottespots made of the ſame moulde, and mettall that I am and by the ſame …
With rule
… other my brethren, children of the ſame father, ſeruaunte of the ſame Lord, and pottespots made of the ſame moulde, and mettall that I am and by the ſame …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Malachi · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

Printed
… Temple, where the LEVITES prayſed GOD with Muſicall Inſtruments, and the PRIESTES had their PottesPots and Bowles ſet before the Altar, full of odours, as wee reade in the …
With rule
… Temple, where the LEVITES prayſed GOD with Muſicall Inſtruments, and the PRIESTES had their PottesPots and Bowles ſet before the Altar, full of odours, as wee reade in the …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 165 · Open in the reader