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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4040 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

agaynagain

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

Puritas changed it
1,071 times in 180 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,071 of 1,073)
Reach if approved
~1,127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: again
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,073 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,071 changes in 180 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,071)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of their kyngedome and sure saffetie for euer / forasmuche as they haue now gottē agaynagain their deuelishe and abhominable Masse / their vnfruteful Latin seruice / their beggarly ceremonies / &c. & haue …
    With rule
    … of their kyngedome and sure saffetie for euer / forasmuche as they haue now gottē agaynagain their deuelishe and abhominable Masse / their vnfruteful Latin seruice / their beggarly ceremonies / &c. & haue …

    Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … receaued Goddes worde, and dyd caste it awaye afterwarde, laye hande on it once agaynagain, as Peter dyd, and be so earnest followers of it, that they neuermore slyde …
    With rule
    … receaued Goddes worde, and dyd caste it awaye afterwarde, laye hande on it once agaynagain, as Peter dyd, and be so earnest followers of it, that they neuermore slyde …

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the virgin Mary. Yea he …uffred, was crucified, died, went down to hel, rose agaynagain the third day from the dead, ascended vnto heauen, and shall come again vnto …
    With rule
    … the virgin Mary. Yea he …uffred, was crucified, died, went down to hel, rose agaynagain the third day from the dead, ascended vnto heauen, and shall come again vnto …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 260 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … al ſtocked for a long time, afterward they were let looſe in their priſons agaynagain. This paynter, becauſe he wold alwaies be writing on the walles with chalk to …
    With rule
    … al ſtocked for a long time, afterward they were let looſe in their priſons agaynagain. This paynter, becauſe he wold alwaies be writing on the walles with chalk to …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    And agaynagain, Augustines Questions on the Olde and New Testament, are cited by the Rhemists, for …
    With rule
    And agaynagain, Augustines Questions on the Olde and New Testament, are cited by the Rhemists, for …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Finally for the reversing agaynagain of the censure aforesaid, who k…oweth not that even the best and wisest …
    With rule
    Finally for the reversing agaynagain of the censure aforesaid, who k…oweth not that even the best and wisest …

    Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … put god to do that thing miraculously when it may be done other wayes. AgaynAgain, vpon the mountaine whan the deuyll wold haue hym to worship him, he said …
    With rule
    … put god to do that thing miraculously when it may be done other wayes. AgaynAgain, vpon the mountaine whan the deuyll wold haue hym to worship him, he said …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … theſe euyll angelles be allways redy to harme vs, ſo be ye good Angelles agaynagain euer redy to helpe vs, that we forſake not the truyth, but cōſtantly ſtycke …
    With rule
    … theſe euyll angelles be allways redy to harme vs, ſo be ye good Angelles agaynagain euer redy to helpe vs, that we forſake not the truyth, but cōſtantly ſtycke …

    Martin Luther · Sermon on Matthew 18 · 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.

Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work A14144

  • Printed
    AGaynAgain in the ſame .v. chaprer love youre enemyes / bleſſe thē yt curſſe you do …
    With rule
    AGaynAgain in the ſame .v. chaprer love youre enemyes / bleſſe thē yt curſſe you do …

    William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    AGaynAgain in the ſame 5. chapter, loue your ennemies, bleſſe them that curſe you, doe well …
    With rule
    AGaynAgain in the ſame 5. chapter, loue your ennemies, bleſſe them that curſe you, doe well …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 73 · Open in the reader