Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4201 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byrthbirth

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

Puritas changed it: 432 times in 152 works
Consistency: 98.4% (432 of 439)
Reach if approved: ~461 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: birth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 439 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (432 changes in 152 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 432)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Nowe where are theise parsons, which haue so lytle pleasure in this regeneraciō & newe byrthbirth, as I may so speke, of Gods moost blessed word & in this settynge forth …
With rule
Nowe where are theise parsons, which haue so lytle pleasure in this regeneraciō & newe byrthbirth, as I may so speke, of Gods moost blessed word & in this settynge forth …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Salomon, Better is the Daie of our Death, then the daie of our byrthbirth: For man is borne of a woman in travell, to liue in miserie, but …
With rule
… with Salomon, Better is the Daie of our Death, then the daie of our byrthbirth: For man is borne of a woman in travell, to liue in miserie, but …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… countrey, the particular causes both in mens myndes and bodies, as, education, place, honestie, byrthbirth, bloud, sicknesse, health, strength, weaknesse, meate, drincke, libertie of mynde, learnyng. &c. and all …
With rule
… countrey, the particular causes both in mens myndes and bodies, as, education, place, honestie, byrthbirth, bloud, sicknesse, health, strength, weaknesse, meate, drincke, libertie of mynde, learnyng. &c. and all …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the Father, and Holy Ghost: and in his manhood hee was holy by byrthbirth; in life also and conversation he shewed all manner holynes without syn or spott …
With rule
… with the Father, and Holy Ghost: and in his manhood hee was holy by byrthbirth; in life also and conversation he shewed all manner holynes without syn or spott …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it not be, that the yearly day of celebration is meant only of mens byrthbirth, and oblations for the deade left at larg… for to celebrate the yearly festiuity …
With rule
… it not be, that the yearly day of celebration is meant only of mens byrthbirth, and oblations for the deade left at larg… for to celebrate the yearly festiuity …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
Vnto all the worlde, your byrthbirth we firſt declared,
With rule
Vnto all the worlde, your byrthbirth we firſt declared,
John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, by the worde of God preached and opened. Thus commeth in oure newe byrthbirth. Here you maye se howe necessarye thys offyce is to our saluacion. This is …
With rule
… God, by the worde of God preached and opened. Thus commeth in oure newe byrthbirth. Here you maye se howe necessarye thys offyce is to our saluacion. This is …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Luc. the xii. where y^e Angelles apering to the ſhepperds & ſhewyng them the byrthbirth of Chriſte, dyd ſyng the goodly ſonge Gloria in excelſis deo et in terra …
With rule
… in Luc. the xii. where y^e Angelles apering to the ſhepperds & ſhewyng them the byrthbirth of Chriſte, dyd ſyng the goodly ſonge Gloria in excelſis deo et in terra …
Martin Luther · Sermon on Matthew 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christ Jesus Triumphant A01118

Printed
… he doth obay: for that title of eldershyp, and right of inheritaunce commeth of ByrthBirth, not of Workes: of Nature, not of manners, and Conditions. In lyke manner the …
With rule
… he doth obay: for that title of eldershyp, and right of inheritaunce commeth of ByrthBirth, not of Workes: of Nature, not of manners, and Conditions. In lyke manner the …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

Printed
… King. 6. Since the Temple. 2 5 3 6 4 7 5 8 6 9 * Adams yeeres at his death 930 are hence to our L. ByrthBirth: who is the ſecond Adam and the third Temple. 930 7 10 11 3000 12 ☞ 13 Reſt. 10 14 15 16 17 18 ☟ 19 920 20 Reſt. 21 3010 IVB. 22 9 23 20 24 ☝ 25 26 27 28 Reſt. 29 910 30 31 3020 32 ☞ 33 30 34 35 Reſt …
With rule
… King. 6. Since the Temple. 2 5 3 6 4 7 5 8 6 9 * Adams yeeres at his death 930 are hence to our L. ByrthBirth: who is the ſecond Adam and the third Temple. 930 7 10 11 3000 12 ☞ 13 Reſt. 10 14 15 16 17 18 ☟ 19 920 20 Reſt. 21 3010 IVB. 22 9 23 20 24 ☝ 25 26 27 28 Reſt. 29 910 30 31 3020 32 ☞ 33 30 34 35 Reſt …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader