Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8387 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

personneperson

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

Puritas changed it: 107 times in 51 works
Consistency: 96.4% (107 of 111)
Reach if approved: ~117 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: person
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 111 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (107 changes in 51 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 107)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
4 But if either rashely they haue promoted any manifest wicked personneperson, or yet ignorantly haue chosen suche a one, as after declareth hī self vnworthie …
With rule
4 But if either rashely they haue promoted any manifest wicked personneperson, or yet ignorantly haue chosen suche a one, as after declareth hī self vnworthie …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
Pope Caius made a decree, that no lay personneperson should presume to accuse or to call into iudgemente beefore a secular iudge, either …
With rule
Pope Caius made a decree, that no lay personneperson should presume to accuse or to call into iudgemente beefore a secular iudge, either …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 The round table declareth that this feaſt is referred vnto the Bridegroomes comming in perſonneperson with whom the people of all the round woorld ſhal ſit downe, although the …
With rule
2 The round table declareth that this feaſt is referred vnto the Bridegroomes comming in perſonneperson with whom the people of all the round woorld ſhal ſit downe, although the …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the whych we haue ſpoken here before I do then principally call the thyrde perſonneperson, ſpirite, bycauſe that worde doeth better open hys propertie then anye other we can …
With rule
… the whych we haue ſpoken here before I do then principally call the thyrde perſonneperson, ſpirite, bycauſe that worde doeth better open hys propertie then anye other we can …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader
Printed
… for hys hert was not right with God: he was a diſſembler, gredye & vnfaithfull perſonneperson which ſet hys hert and mynde vpon erthlye thynges, allwaye deſpyſinge. Gods worde, and …
With rule
… for hys hert was not right with God: he was a diſſembler, gredye & vnfaithfull perſonneperson which ſet hys hert and mynde vpon erthlye thynges, allwaye deſpyſinge. Gods worde, and …
Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… the worde of wisedome, vnto an other the worde of knowledge. &c. Therefore euerye personneperson or member of the Church, muste haue his owne proper and seuerall office, that …
With rule
… the worde of wisedome, vnto an other the worde of knowledge. &c. Therefore euerye personneperson or member of the Church, muste haue his owne proper and seuerall office, that …
Laurence Chaderton · Sermon Upon Romans 12:3-8 · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… esperance … vn bonheur extra ordinaire. Partant, comme vous vous estes acheminè el Espagne versla personneperson du Roy Catholique, auec desir de vous allier á la Maison d' Austriche, Nous …
With rule
… esperance … vn bonheur extra ordinaire. Partant, comme vous vous estes acheminè el Espagne versla personneperson du Roy Catholique, auec desir de vous allier á la Maison d' Austriche, Nous …
William Prynne · The Popish Royal Favorite · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doeth depicte and ſette forth that moſt hygh gouernour of the worlde, vnder the perſonneperson of a ſhepeherde, and vs vnder the ſimilitude of ſhepe. What ſhoulde we ſaye …
With rule
… doeth depicte and ſette forth that moſt hygh gouernour of the worlde, vnder the perſonneperson of a ſhepeherde, and vs vnder the ſimilitude of ſhepe. What ſhoulde we ſaye …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Image of Both Pastors Set Forth · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass A14460

Printed
d Here, Maſt PerſonnePerson croſſeth him ſelfe, for feare he ſhould loſe him ſelf, if he were not …
With rule
d Here, Maſt PerſonnePerson croſſeth him ſelfe, for feare he ſhould loſe him ſelf, if he were not …
Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · p. 208 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

Printed
… the moſte parte vſed Ouſia, Hypoſtaſis, and Proſopon: whiche wee call, Eſſence, Subſiſtence, and PerſonnePerson. Of theſe againe there did in the Churches, ſpring vppe newe and freſhe contentions …
With rule
… the moſte parte vſed Ouſia, Hypoſtaſis, and Proſopon: whiche wee call, Eſſence, Subſiſtence, and PerſonnePerson. Of theſe againe there did in the Churches, ſpring vppe newe and freſhe contentions …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 625 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

Printed
… answered, that because in suche places there is a comparyson made of the one PersonnePerson to the other, the name of God is not there indefinitelye taken, but restrayned …
With rule
… answered, that because in suche places there is a comparyson made of the one PersonnePerson to the other, the name of God is not there indefinitelye taken, but restrayned …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader