Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4030 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wrytethwriteth

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

Puritas changed it: 505 times in 113 works
Consistency: 99.6% (505 of 507)
Reach if approved: ~533 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: writes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 507 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (505 changes in 113 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 505)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… towardes him, being an enimie to the Gospell, and a persecutour in those dayes, wrytethwriteth thus: wee reuerence or honoure the Emperour as a man next vnto God, and …
With rule
… towardes him, being an enimie to the Gospell, and a persecutour in those dayes, wrytethwriteth thus: wee reuerence or honoure the Emperour as a man next vnto God, and …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the dead. The Abridger of Iasons Cronicle in the Chapter by you quoted, thus wrytethwriteth.
With rule
… the dead. The Abridger of Iasons Cronicle in the Chapter by you quoted, thus wrytethwriteth.
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… awes, the gospell claene set apart. About this time ollo (as master Iohn Carion wrytethwriteth in hys cronicle) floryshed the Lordly order of cardinals, and grewe into a wonderful …
With rule
… awes, the gospell claene set apart. About this time ollo (as master Iohn Carion wrytethwriteth in hys cronicle) floryshed the Lordly order of cardinals, and grewe into a wonderful …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… conuenyently folowyng the maner and phrase of scrypture, I say vnto you as Paule wrytethwriteth vnto the Galathyans: My deare chyldrē of whom I trauell in brythe agayne vntyll …
With rule
… conuenyently folowyng the maner and phrase of scrypture, I say vnto you as Paule wrytethwriteth vnto the Galathyans: My deare chyldrē of whom I trauell in brythe agayne vntyll …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… his brother beynge dead. Ergo he doth not well. This & certayne other thynges he wrytethwriteth not very godly, shewynge him selfe to be a very mā, that is to …
With rule
… his brother beynge dead. Ergo he doth not well. This & certayne other thynges he wrytethwriteth not very godly, shewynge him selfe to be a very mā, that is to …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… amplify, with immoderate and ſuperfluous ſpeeches: the cauſe hee taketh in hande, as hee wrytethwriteth very ſharply of Canonicall puniſhements, hee ſayeth, Abſolution of ſinnes is not auayleable, except …
With rule
… amplify, with immoderate and ſuperfluous ſpeeches: the cauſe hee taketh in hande, as hee wrytethwriteth very ſharply of Canonicall puniſhements, hee ſayeth, Abſolution of ſinnes is not auayleable, except …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them; which should also be mutually performed on our part) we signifyed (as he wrytethwriteth) that wee little thought they had been so inclinable to peace; & that if we …
With rule
… them; which should also be mutually performed on our part) we signifyed (as he wrytethwriteth) that wee little thought they had been so inclinable to peace; & that if we …
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ryght fredome ād liberte from sinne and from the lawe / where of he wrytethwriteth vn to the ende off this chapter / that yt ys a fredome to doo …
With rule
… the ryght fredome ād liberte from sinne and from the lawe / where of he wrytethwriteth vn to the ende off this chapter / that yt ys a fredome to doo …
William Tyndale · Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Historical Table of the Bible A06660

Printed
… the Perſians receyueth letters of complaintes agaynſt the Iewes. i. Eſdr. iiij.b.c. WrytethWriteth an aunſwere, forbyddeth the buyldynge of the temple. iiij.d. dyd graunt Iſrael to …
With rule
… the Perſians receyueth letters of complaintes agaynſt the Iewes. i. Eſdr. iiij.b.c. WrytethWriteth an aunſwere, forbyddeth the buyldynge of the temple. iiij.d. dyd graunt Iſrael to …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſonne of Nerye. Ierem. xxxii.b. wrytethwriteth a boke whych was burned. xxxvi* WrytethWriteth another whyche was redde. xlv.a.b. Baruch. i.a
With rule
… the ſonne of Nerye. Ierem. xxxii.b. wrytethwriteth a boke whych was burned. xxxvi* WrytethWriteth another whyche was redde. xlv.a.b. Baruch. i.a
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader