Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33330 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yffif

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

Puritas changed it: 276 times in 9 works
Consistency: 100% (276 of 276)
Reach if approved: ~290 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: yff
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 276 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (276 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 276)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Firſte / yffif anye off the congregation be offenſiue in manners or doctrine to anie off the …
With rule
Firſte / yffif anye off the congregation be offenſiue in manners or doctrine to anie off the …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. C12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life off him which is to be choſen / and in the approbation off him yffif they like off him / or refuſall iff they like him not: which Cyprian proueth …
With rule
… life off him which is to be choſen / and in the approbation off him yffif they like off him / or refuſall iff they like him not: which Cyprian proueth …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CXXV · Open in the reader
Printed
… wold let them be sacramentes whych christ institute and ordeyned for sacramentes. And then yffif ye make of youre awne braynes, v. hundred therto I wolde not be so …
With rule
… wold let them be sacramentes whych christ institute and ordeyned for sacramentes. And then yffif ye make of youre awne braynes, v. hundred therto I wolde not be so …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. Cix · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayeth S. Augustine) which are not worthy to be compared to him that sayed: YffIf we / butt that also which forthwith he addeth / Yf an Aungell frome heauen shall …
With rule
… sayeth S. Augustine) which are not worthy to be compared to him that sayed: YffIf we / butt that also which forthwith he addeth / Yf an Aungell frome heauen shall …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thunder off the iudgement off god / whereat they may be caſt downe and as yffif they had bene ſtricken with a thunder bolt from heauen and conſumed / yffif they …
With rule
… thunder off the iudgement off god / whereat they may be caſt downe and as yffif they had bene ſtricken with a thunder bolt from heauen and conſumed / yffif they …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpp the leefe with all) of the pater noster / very necessary and profitable / wherein (yffif thou marke) thou shalt perceave what prayer is and all that belongeth to prayar …
With rule
… vpp the leefe with all) of the pater noster / very necessary and profitable / wherein (yffif thou marke) thou shalt perceave what prayer is and all that belongeth to prayar …
William Tyndale · Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… he is the minister of God / to take vengeaunce on them that doo evyll. YffIf the office of princes geven them of God be to take vēgeaunce of evill …
With rule
… he is the minister of God / to take vengeaunce on them that doo evyll. YffIf the office of princes geven them of God be to take vēgeaunce of evill …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · p. xxxiiij · Open in the reader
Printed
… the houſhold of Chriſte / and of Chriſt ſhalt thou have thy rewarde and thanke. YffIf the whole world were thine / yet hath every brother his right in thy goodes …
With rule
… the houſhold of Chriſte / and of Chriſt ſhalt thou have thy rewarde and thanke. YffIf the whole world were thine / yet hath every brother his right in thy goodes …
William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · p. xlij · 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.