Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11504 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yéeresyears

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 642 times in 61 works
Consistency: 100% (642 of 642)
Reach if approved: ~757 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: years
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 720 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (642 changes in 61 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 642)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
And ere I nine yéeresyears old had fully beene, it taught me how to frame a ſound of love,
With rule
And ere I nine yéeresyears old had fully beene, it taught me how to frame a ſound of love,
George Wither · An Excellent Sonnet · Open in the reader
Printed
… still to glory and to cry, that your faith hath continued almost xvj. hundred yéeresyears, when you know that in a number of things you are not able to …
With rule
… still to glory and to cry, that your faith hath continued almost xvj. hundred yéeresyears, when you know that in a number of things you are not able to …
Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bishops hath had many interruptions, so as the chaire hath béene empty for many yéeresyears together, the body wanting a head, or els hauing sometimes two, sometimes thrée heads …
With rule
… Bishops hath had many interruptions, so as the chaire hath béene empty for many yéeresyears together, the body wanting a head, or els hauing sometimes two, sometimes thrée heads …
Henry Burton · Grounds of Christian Religion · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
Benedictus the ninthe, lyued ſo wickedly, governing the Church fiftéene yéeresyears: that one Hiſtorian ſayth, he was, Vir plane probroſus & infamis, that is: A man …
With rule
Benedictus the ninthe, lyued ſo wickedly, governing the Church fiftéene yéeresyears: that one Hiſtorian ſayth, he was, Vir plane probroſus & infamis, that is: A man …
Robert Crowley · An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound · Open in the reader
Printed
A. All that haue béene baptized, and are of yéeresyears and ſound iudgement, and able to examine and prepare themſelues, that they may come …
With rule
A. All that haue béene baptized, and are of yéeresyears and ſound iudgement, and able to examine and prepare themſelues, that they may come …
Edward Elton · A Form of Catechizing · Open in the reader
Printed
… can not glory of the Apoſtolick ſeat, although indéed it were ther many hundred yéeresyears béefore. For there is alſo a ſeate of the Diuell, as Saynt Iohn declareth …
With rule
… can not glory of the Apoſtolick ſeat, although indéed it were ther many hundred yéeresyears béefore. For there is alſo a ſeate of the Diuell, as Saynt Iohn declareth …
Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to mans thinking) as the earth, cōueied from heire to heire, for hundreths of yéeresyears in continuance.
With rule
… to mans thinking) as the earth, cōueied from heire to heire, for hundreths of yéeresyears in continuance.
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the yeare of Christ 1400. then any time before, and there lacketh but twelue yéeresyears of the fulfilling thereof. In the opening of the seuen seales is declared the …
With rule
… in the yeare of Christ 1400. then any time before, and there lacketh but twelue yéeresyears of the fulfilling thereof. In the opening of the seuen seales is declared the …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 109 · 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.