Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8184 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

twaynetwain

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 50 works
Consistency: 100% (118 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: twain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 50 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Yet for a yere or twaynetwain
With rule
Yet for a yere or twaynetwain
Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader
Printed
… off his patched cloake from him, to giue him a better: and afterwarde we twaynetwain ſhould fall together by the eares, and the one caſte the other in priſon …
With rule
… off his patched cloake from him, to giue him a better: and afterwarde we twaynetwain ſhould fall together by the eares, and the one caſte the other in priſon …
Anthony Gilby · Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain · Open in the reader
Printed
… once: especially where mans case is doubtfull, and often deserueth the worse of the twaynetwain.
With rule
… once: especially where mans case is doubtfull, and often deserueth the worse of the twaynetwain.
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vse of the churche of Rome: So that the churche was then rent in twaynetwain, by meanes of his obstinacy, He died Anno. 203.
With rule
… vse of the churche of Rome: So that the churche was then rent in twaynetwain, by meanes of his obstinacy, He died Anno. 203.
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Sea by force of his breaking into some Countrey a League or twaynetwain, which can nothing serue to this purpose. And if their alledging of it in …
With rule
… of the Sea by force of his breaking into some Countrey a League or twaynetwain, which can nothing serue to this purpose. And if their alledging of it in …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Te deū. And frō y^e time hitherto / y^e emperour ād our cardinall haue bene twaynetwain.
With rule
… Te deū. And frō y^e time hitherto / y^e emperour ād our cardinall haue bene twaynetwain.
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader
Printed
Of ſyxe hundreth thouſande men, alonely but twaynetwain entred into the land of promyſe, becauſe they had tē times ſynned againſt the …
With rule
Of ſyxe hundreth thouſande men, alonely but twaynetwain entred into the land of promyſe, becauſe they had tē times ſynned againſt the …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… poore man must make readie y^e monie at the end of one moneth or twaynetwain, this vsurie or Returne is is worse thā y^e other. For he returneth his …
With rule
… poore man must make readie y^e monie at the end of one moneth or twaynetwain, this vsurie or Returne is is worse thā y^e other. For he returneth his …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 824 · 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.