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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4024 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saiestsayest

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

Puritas changed it
464 times in 226 works
Consistency
99.3% (464 of 467)
Reach if approved
~491 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sayest
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
467 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (464 changes in 226 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 464)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … toucheth it, dooth shew manifestly. For, hauing set downe his aduersaries obiection: But, thou saiestsayest, the church is built vpon Peter: he answereth thereto, Although the same be done …
    With rule
    … toucheth it, dooth shew manifestly. For, hauing set downe his aduersaries obiection: But, thou saiestsayest, the church is built vpon Peter: he answereth thereto, Although the same be done …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … from the bones without pitie, as hee had done many mens before? If thou ſaieſtsayest this is rare, and not like to befall thee. Well, yet there is one …
    With rule
    … from the bones without pitie, as hee had done many mens before? If thou ſaieſtsayest this is rare, and not like to befall thee. Well, yet there is one …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 458 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Macedonians, & not to cast himselfe in to the daunger of ye warres. What saiestsayest thou clearchus ꝙ the kyng? Dost thou connsaille me that where as I couette …
    With rule
    … the Macedonians, & not to cast himselfe in to the daunger of ye warres. What saiestsayest thou clearchus ꝙ the kyng? Dost thou connsaille me that where as I couette …

    Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom Book 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ther are ſome which abuſe them. Neither is that of any force which thou ſaieſtsayest. The goodnes of generation excuſeth not y• crime of adultery: neither doth original ſin …
    With rule
    … ther are ſome which abuſe them. Neither is that of any force which thou ſaieſtsayest. The goodnes of generation excuſeth not y• crime of adultery: neither doth original ſin …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thou hast the materialls of this sinne within thee, timorousnesse and selfe-loue. Thou saiestsayest, Sure I shall neuer be a drunkard, that belluine folly shal neuer apprehend me …
    With rule
    … thou hast the materialls of this sinne within thee, timorousnesse and selfe-loue. Thou saiestsayest, Sure I shall neuer be a drunkard, that belluine folly shal neuer apprehend me …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 388 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … haires of his head, and that therefore his heart failed him, Psal. 40. 12. and thou saiestsayest, then thou wilt cast off all thy sins, and get assurance of the pardon …
    With rule
    … haires of his head, and that therefore his heart failed him, Psal. 40. 12. and thou saiestsayest, then thou wilt cast off all thy sins, and get assurance of the pardon …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 443 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will ſtande vnto and maintaine: I tell thee, who ſoeuer thou bee that ſo ſaieſtsayest, thou art a forlorne perſone, and in a moſte miſerable caſe. Let this rather …
    With rule
    … will ſtande vnto and maintaine: I tell thee, who ſoeuer thou bee that ſo ſaieſtsayest, thou art a forlorne perſone, and in a moſte miſerable caſe. Let this rather …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the triall, and let it appeare who saieth true, thou or I. If thou saiestsayest true; proue thy Faith by something or other to be true. Shew me thy …
    With rule
    … the triall, and let it appeare who saieth true, thou or I. If thou saiestsayest true; proue thy Faith by something or other to be true. Shew me thy …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 199 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

  • Printed
    … Woorde of God. But ſome of them will here ſteppe forthe and ſaie. What SaieſtSayest thou that wee ought not to obſerue the doctrines of men? Were not Peter …
    With rule
    … Woorde of God. But ſome of them will here ſteppe forthe and ſaie. What SaieſtSayest thou that wee ought not to obſerue the doctrines of men? Were not Peter …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    SaieſtSayest thou then, this peace is good to haue, but hard to get? It were …
    With rule
    SaieſtSayest thou then, this peace is good to haue, but hard to get? It were …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 97 · Open in the reader