Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4124 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prysonprison

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

Puritas changed it: 232 times in 78 works
Consistency: 100% (232 of 232)
Reach if approved: ~244 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: prison
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 232 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (232 changes in 78 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 232)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… feruently, he shaked the prysonne vnlosoned the foundacions, & dydde bynd the keper of the prysonprison, & afterward brought hym vnto holy religion. And Ezechias not stōding right vp, nor bowynge …
With rule
… feruently, he shaked the prysonne vnlosoned the foundacions, & dydde bynd the keper of the prysonprison, & afterward brought hym vnto holy religion. And Ezechias not stōding right vp, nor bowynge …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… this new byrth cā neuer be perfect so longe as we lyue in the prysonprison of thys mortall body, it muste nedes be that this same mynd and study …
With rule
… this new byrth cā neuer be perfect so longe as we lyue in the prysonprison of thys mortall body, it muste nedes be that this same mynd and study …
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… afraide to put them in danger then themſelues: for wee are not out of pryſonprison without being mindefull of them, & feeling y^e afflictions of our brethren as if we …
With rule
… afraide to put them in danger then themſelues: for wee are not out of pryſonprison without being mindefull of them, & feeling y^e afflictions of our brethren as if we …
Pierre Viret · Epistle to the Faithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… tholde man with his luſtes, & concupiſcens Be content with Ioſephe to put of thy pryſonprison Apparel, that thou mayſt put on newe. Thinke y^t we doe willingly put of …
With rule
… tholde man with his luſtes, & concupiſcens Be content with Ioſephe to put of thy pryſonprison Apparel, that thou mayſt put on newe. Thinke y^t we doe willingly put of …
John Bradford · A Godly Meditation · Open in the reader
Printed
… a double herte. But because no man hath so muche strength in this erathly prysonprison of his body, that he hasteth thitherwarde w^t so muche swyftnes of runnyng, as …
With rule
… a double herte. But because no man hath so muche strength in this erathly prysonprison of his body, that he hasteth thitherwarde w^t so muche swyftnes of runnyng, as …
John Calvin · The Life of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… to y^e … or the saide ꝑson imprisoned after his enlargemēt and commyng out off prysonprison, myght haue had wythin .vi. yeres then nexte ensewyng by force of y^e prouision …
With rule
… to y^e … or the saide ꝑson imprisoned after his enlargemēt and commyng out off prysonprison, myght haue had wythin .vi. yeres then nexte ensewyng by force of y^e prouision …
Richard Taverner · The Principal Laws of England · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drought / rayne oppressyon / robberye / theues / rape / yll fortune / captyuite / e…ile / wrechednes / subieccion / dāger / prysonprison / syckenes / strypes / shame / cowardnes / blyndnes / error / dasynge of harte / desperacion / thou …ht / vnquyetnes / toyle …
With rule
… drought / rayne oppressyon / robberye / theues / rape / yll fortune / captyuite / e…ile / wrechednes / subieccion / dāger / prysonprison / syckenes / strypes / shame / cowardnes / blyndnes / error / dasynge of harte / desperacion / thou …ht / vnquyetnes / toyle …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader
Printed
… permitted to come nere hym. For I knowe that in christian …, some beyng … into prysonprison for the …, for gods wordes sake, haue not bene …, that their frendes should haue …
With rule
… permitted to come nere hym. For I knowe that in christian …, some beyng … into prysonprison for the …, for gods wordes sake, haue not bene …, that their frendes should haue …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · 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.