Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8271 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spechespeech

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

Puritas changed it: 177 times in 58 works
Consistency: 100% (177 of 177)
Reach if approved: ~186 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: speech
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 177 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (177 changes in 58 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 177)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in holy ſcripture but alſo among the Heithen Poetes. And the ſame phraſe of ſpechespeech haue we in Engliſche / As / whan a man ſaieth to aſhrewde boie / Come hither …
With rule
… in holy ſcripture but alſo among the Heithen Poetes. And the ſame phraſe of ſpechespeech haue we in Engliſche / As / whan a man ſaieth to aſhrewde boie / Come hither …
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou thinkeſt that the ſoule alſo is begotten. It is a like forme of ſpechespeech, when we terme any man a mortall creature or a reaſonable creature▪ which terme …
With rule
… thou thinkeſt that the ſoule alſo is begotten. It is a like forme of ſpechespeech, when we terme any man a mortall creature or a reaſonable creature▪ which terme …
Theodore Beza · Book of Christian Questions and Answers · Open in the reader
Printed
… no sygne vn to him that vnderstondeth nought therby: as a spechespeech is no spechespeech vn to hym that vnderstondeth it not. I wold too christes passyon that ye …
With rule
… no sygne vn to him that vnderstondeth nought therby: as a spechespeech is no spechespeech vn to hym that vnderstondeth it not. I wold too christes passyon that ye …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. Cix · Open in the reader
Printed
… say more: yea a hole yeare some tymes erre they canne come to your spechespeech, to be hard of you. For Gods loue looke better to it, speake wyth …
With rule
… say more: yea a hole yeare some tymes erre they canne come to your spechespeech, to be hard of you. For Gods loue looke better to it, speake wyth …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sins. Wherof Christ in the newe Testament vseth a certain and sure kynd of spechespeech: the father that sent me. And again, as the father hath sent me. In …
With rule
… sins. Wherof Christ in the newe Testament vseth a certain and sure kynd of spechespeech: the father that sent me. And again, as the father hath sent me. In …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
By breade is vnderſtande al maner of fuſty naunce in the Ebrue ſpechespeech / ye and here is vnderſtande therby all that pertayned vnto the neceſſyte of thys …
With rule
By breade is vnderſtande al maner of fuſty naunce in the Ebrue ſpechespeech / ye and here is vnderſtande therby all that pertayned vnto the neceſſyte of thys …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. lxviii · Open in the reader
Printed
… come & resurrection, is stablyshed by the resurrection of christe, beholde this faier maner of spechespeech. Thyrdly, yf the naturall body of christi was gyuē the disciples at his supper …
With rule
… come & resurrection, is stablyshed by the resurrection of christe, beholde this faier maner of spechespeech. Thyrdly, yf the naturall body of christi was gyuē the disciples at his supper …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Reckoning and Declaration of Faith and Belief · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nowe where as he ſayde to runne abrode, he ſpake it after the commune ſpechespeech, and he mente, that it might encreaſſe and ſpreade abrode apace wyth oute ony …
With rule
… Nowe where as he ſayde to runne abrode, he ſpake it after the commune ſpechespeech, and he mente, that it might encreaſſe and ſpreade abrode apace wyth oute ony …
Henrich Bullinger · Commentary on 2 Thessalonians · 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.