Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #24956 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

syrachsirach

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 289 times in 151 works
Consistency: 99.6% (289 of 290)
Reach if approved: ~305 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 290 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (289 changes in 151 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 289)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as a King, Jeſus in Zechary as a Prieſt, and Jeſus the ſon of SyrachSirach as a Prophet to reveale the ſecrets of his Fathers wiſdome. As all Joſephs …
With rule
… as a King, Jeſus in Zechary as a Prieſt, and Jeſus the ſon of SyrachSirach as a Prophet to reveale the ſecrets of his Fathers wiſdome. As all Joſephs …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sapience / where as yt is but the iii. chapter of Ecclesiasticus or of Iesus SyrachSirach. And there yt standeth thus. Multos enim s…pplanta…it suspicio illorum / & in vanitate …
With rule
… Sapience / where as yt is but the iii. chapter of Ecclesiasticus or of Iesus SyrachSirach. And there yt standeth thus. Multos enim s…pplanta…it suspicio illorum / & in vanitate …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for suche as be dronckardes & ryotous shall come to pouerte. Iesus y^e sonne of SyrachSirach also sayth: Be not gredy in euery eatynge, & be not to hastye vpon all …
With rule
… for suche as be dronckardes & ryotous shall come to pouerte. Iesus y^e sonne of SyrachSirach also sayth: Be not gredy in euery eatynge, & be not to hastye vpon all …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
In cōſidering this place of Ieſus the ſon of SyrachSirach, & alſo beholding the canonical ſcriptures wherein the auncient blisfulnes of man is deſcribed, as …
With rule
In cōſidering this place of Ieſus the ſon of SyrachSirach, & alſo beholding the canonical ſcriptures wherein the auncient blisfulnes of man is deſcribed, as …
John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wiſdome of Salomon, and the other wyſedome, which is called Ieſus the ſonne of SyrachSirach, the which booke is among the Latins, by that generall tytle called Eccleſſaſticus, by …
With rule
… wiſdome of Salomon, and the other wyſedome, which is called Ieſus the ſonne of SyrachSirach, the which booke is among the Latins, by that generall tytle called Eccleſſaſticus, by …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſonne off SyrachSirach / affirming that the true Samuell prophecyed after his death / leaueth the diſquieting off the …
With rule
The ſonne off SyrachSirach / affirming that the true Samuell prophecyed after his death / leaueth the diſquieting off the …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCC · Open in the reader
Printed
… be justified or reputed just. For the feare of God, which the Sonne of SyrachSirach in that chapter from the tenth verse to the end doth so highly extoll …
With rule
… be justified or reputed just. For the feare of God, which the Sonne of SyrachSirach in that chapter from the tenth verse to the end doth so highly extoll …
George Downame · A Treatise of Justification · p. 397 · Open in the reader
Printed
… back (like Dianah deflowred) to put all in uproar at home. The son of SyrachSirach speaks with transportation of the state even of him that labors and is content …
With rule
… back (like Dianah deflowred) to put all in uproar at home. The son of SyrachSirach speaks with transportation of the state even of him that labors and is content …
Richard Allestree · The Art of Contentment · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.