Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8237 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

folyshefoolish

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

Puritas changed it: 142 times in 55 works
Consistency: 99.3% (142 of 143)
Reach if approved: ~150 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: foolish
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (142 changes in 55 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 142)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and that before all his people. But what vowes are these? Uerely not vnfaythfull & folyshefoolish vowes, which displease god, as y^• scripture say the, but y^• earnest promises that …
With rule
… and that before all his people. But what vowes are these? Uerely not vnfaythfull & folyshefoolish vowes, which displease god, as y^• scripture say the, but y^• earnest promises that …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the mā ners of diuers men at this tyme, amonge whome some as folyshefoolish symple receyue all kynde of doctryne w^t oute ony probacion or triall, some agayne …
With rule
… from the mā ners of diuers men at this tyme, amonge whome some as folyshefoolish symple receyue all kynde of doctryne w^t oute ony probacion or triall, some agayne …
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… for one ſpiritual, for tē poral, geue heuen, and take but houſe & lande and folyſhefoolish temporal thinges.
With rule
… for one ſpiritual, for tē poral, geue heuen, and take but houſe & lande and folyſhefoolish temporal thinges.
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. lxxxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanynge. And so it is manifest that those Uvinchesters raylinges, of a colde interpretation, folyshefoolish, peruerse, and not agreynge, but fyghtynge with the Apostles wordes, be all founde in …
With rule
… meanynge. And so it is manifest that those Uvinchesters raylinges, of a colde interpretation, folyshefoolish, peruerse, and not agreynge, but fyghtynge with the Apostles wordes, be all founde in …
Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader
Printed
… these thynges he somewhat cocker or spare them, for all that, leaste eyther throughe folyshefoolish reioysinge they shoulde waxe proude: or throughe truste in those thinges shoulde excedingely reioyse …
With rule
… these thynges he somewhat cocker or spare them, for all that, leaste eyther throughe folyshefoolish reioysinge they shoulde waxe proude: or throughe truste in those thinges shoulde excedingely reioyse …
John Calvin · The Life of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… then to abate al our workes, to the ende we be no more ſoo folyſhefoolish and obſtynate as to thyncke, that God hath choſen vs, for anye thynge that …
With rule
… then to abate al our workes, to the ende we be no more ſoo folyſhefoolish and obſtynate as to thyncke, that God hath choſen vs, for anye thynge that …
John Calvin · Two Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… thē voyde of all christen lernynge, eyther of lawe or Gospell. yea, moste incypyent & folyshefoolish. Yet was the seyd Augustyne the best lerned amōge thē. These toke with thē …
With rule
… thē voyde of all christen lernynge, eyther of lawe or Gospell. yea, moste incypyent & folyshefoolish. Yet was the seyd Augustyne the best lerned amōge thē. These toke with thē …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader
Printed
… hast gotten a wh…res forehead. Thou canst not thincke shame: My people is folyshefoolish, they know me not. They ar folish Children, and haue no wysdome, wyse they …
With rule
… hast gotten a wh…res forehead. Thou canst not thincke shame: My people is folyshefoolish, they know me not. They ar folish Children, and haue no wysdome, wyse they …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
FolyſheFoolish peple deceyued. 59. a
With rule
FolyſheFoolish peple deceyued. 59. a
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader