Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25086 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sillablesyllable

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

Puritas changed it: 231 times in 151 works
Consistency: 96.6% (231 of 239)
Reach if approved: ~251 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 239 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (231 changes in 151 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 231)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… honeſt. Eraſmus noteth that the Apoſtle taketh away from this woord Hiſpania, the firſt ſillablesyllable. For he writeth Spania, And paraduenture they ſo ſpeake in Grecia. And when he …
With rule
… honeſt. Eraſmus noteth that the Apoſtle taketh away from this woord Hiſpania, the firſt ſillablesyllable. For he writeth Spania, And paraduenture they ſo ſpeake in Grecia. And when he …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… of it, both a Star, and this sillablesyllable [Con.] Also, you shall find this sillablesyllable [Con] and an [F] ouer euery word, which is both Polemicall, and a word …
With rule
… of it, both a Star, and this sillablesyllable [Con.] Also, you shall find this sillablesyllable [Con] and an [F] ouer euery word, which is both Polemicall, and a word …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · Open in the reader
Printed
… we hearken to it with thirſty eares, and as curiouſly obſerve every line and ſillablesyllable therein as Jewellers doe every carrat in a Diamond. Such is the difference betweene …
With rule
… we hearken to it with thirſty eares, and as curiouſly obſerve every line and ſillablesyllable therein as Jewellers doe every carrat in a Diamond. Such is the difference betweene …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sander is in Augustine, which professeth, that in his workes he neuer sawe one sillablesyllable, why to thinke that he would the litteral sense of the sixt of S …
With rule
… Sander is in Augustine, which professeth, that in his workes he neuer sawe one sillablesyllable, why to thinke that he would the litteral sense of the sixt of S …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 505 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then I aske againe, was thy heart knit to the Word onely, and the ſillablesyllable only? and did thy heart cloſe with the ſentences only? the ſoule anſwers, No …
With rule
… then I aske againe, was thy heart knit to the Word onely, and the ſillablesyllable only? and did thy heart cloſe with the ſentences only? the ſoule anſwers, No …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vsed in the tyme of Iohn Wickleefe to be expressed in vvords of one sillablesyllable. And because gods children did reckon seauen tymes seauen yeares before they could enioy …
With rule
… vsed in the tyme of Iohn Wickleefe to be expressed in vvords of one sillablesyllable. And because gods children did reckon seauen tymes seauen yeares before they could enioy …
William Loe · Songs of Zion · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blessing in the vse thereof. Now let any Papists shew me one letter or sillablesyllable in all the Booke of God, commanding the vse of a creature for any …
With rule
… blessing in the vse thereof. Now let any Papists shew me one letter or sillablesyllable in all the Booke of God, commanding the vse of a creature for any …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may often ſpend words idly, but the holy ſpirit cannot waſte one iot or ſillablesyllable. The cauſe of this repetition is: Paul cannot forget the thing that he and …
With rule
… may often ſpend words idly, but the holy ſpirit cannot waſte one iot or ſillablesyllable. The cauſe of this repetition is: Paul cannot forget the thing that he and …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 187 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Micro-Cosmography A21075

Printed
… the couer be all Moth-eaten, and the dust make a Parenthesis betweene euerie SillableSyllable. He would giue all the Bookes in his Studie (which are rarities all) for …
With rule
… the couer be all Moth-eaten, and the dust make a Parenthesis betweene euerie SillableSyllable. He would giue all the Bookes in his Studie (which are rarities all) for …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader