Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4196 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

storiestory

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

Puritas changed it: 2,274 times in 609 works
Consistency: 100% (2,274 of 2,274)
Reach if approved: ~2,389 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: story
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,274 changes in 609 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,274)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as forged, I pray you, vvhat will hee leaue (sayeth hee) of all the StorieStory of Antiquitie, safe or sound vnto vs?
With rule
… as forged, I pray you, vvhat will hee leaue (sayeth hee) of all the StorieStory of Antiquitie, safe or sound vnto vs?
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be Pope of Rome. Whereupon saith Polidor Virgill in his sixt booke of his storiestory of Englande, Monkes and priestes at this tyme, declining from the trade of their …
With rule
… be Pope of Rome. Whereupon saith Polidor Virgill in his sixt booke of his storiestory of Englande, Monkes and priestes at this tyme, declining from the trade of their …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
THE ſtoriestory of Chriſts conference with the woman of Samaria, cannot be vnknowne vnto any, which …
With rule
THE ſtoriestory of Chriſts conference with the woman of Samaria, cannot be vnknowne vnto any, which …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
StorieStory.
With rule
StorieStory.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader
Printed
… the bookes of Ezra and Nehemie: the other by the new Teſtament and Eccleſiaſticall StorieStory, the interuenient time cannot bee vnknowne, though how to reckon each particular in ſo …
With rule
… the bookes of Ezra and Nehemie: the other by the new Teſtament and Eccleſiaſticall StorieStory, the interuenient time cannot bee vnknowne, though how to reckon each particular in ſo …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… borne in Ipſwich, condemned. Who being complayned of to ſir Roger Chomley, and Doctor StorieStory, was ſent to Boner. And after much perſwaſion to recant, according to his māner …
With rule
… borne in Ipſwich, condemned. Who being complayned of to ſir Roger Chomley, and Doctor StorieStory, was ſent to Boner. And after much perſwaſion to recant, according to his māner …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be ignorant of this, which is testified by Ranulphus Castrensis, Mathaeus VVestmonasteriensis the storiestory of Peterburghe and many other. Now whether any ment to maintaine preaching against Masse …
With rule
… not be ignorant of this, which is testified by Ranulphus Castrensis, Mathaeus VVestmonasteriensis the storiestory of Peterburghe and many other. Now whether any ment to maintaine preaching against Masse …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… towardes God as we may eaſily ſée, conſidering al the whole circumſtaunces of the ſtoriestory. God had called him out of his-nati… Countrey and from his Fathers houſe …
With rule
… towardes God as we may eaſily ſée, conſidering al the whole circumſtaunces of the ſtoriestory. God had called him out of his-nati… Countrey and from his Fathers houſe …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · 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.