Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4219 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saiyngsaying

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

Puritas changed it: 314 times in 50 works
Consistency: 99.6% (314 of 315)
Reach if approved: ~331 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: saying
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 315 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (314 changes in 50 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 314)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… starued branches, that new plantes may prosper the better. So that according to the saiyngsaying of the same Augustine, many rauening wolues possesse the Church within, whiles many sheepe …
With rule
… starued branches, that new plantes may prosper the better. So that according to the saiyngsaying of the same Augustine, many rauening wolues possesse the Church within, whiles many sheepe …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſurrection. And as Saint Paul in the. 8. to the Romaines, dooth glory and reioyce, ſaiyngsaying. How ſhall he not geue vs all thinges with him?
With rule
… reſurrection. And as Saint Paul in the. 8. to the Romaines, dooth glory and reioyce, ſaiyngsaying. How ſhall he not geue vs all thinges with him?
Martin Luther · Certain Meditations of Perfect Consolation · Open in the reader
Printed
… after the departure of thys lyfe be dāpned for euer? therfore Chryst monisheth vs saiyngsaying, watch, for ye know not the daye nor the houre, whan the Sonne of …
With rule
… after the departure of thys lyfe be dāpned for euer? therfore Chryst monisheth vs saiyngsaying, watch, for ye know not the daye nor the houre, whan the Sonne of …
Thomas Becon · The Physic of the Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
… and conſequently is an Adulterer. And this is it which Ieſus Chriſt expreſly confirmeth, ſaiyngsaying Who ſo putteth away his wife, except for whordome, and marrieth another, committeth adulterie …
With rule
… and conſequently is an Adulterer. And this is it which Ieſus Chriſt expreſly confirmeth, ſaiyngsaying Who ſo putteth away his wife, except for whordome, and marrieth another, committeth adulterie …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his ſaiyngsaying at his deathe.
With rule
… vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his ſaiyngsaying at his deathe.
John Bradford · The Complaint of Verity · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyl leade vs to that, which the scripture, in an other place, teacheth vs, saiyngsaying: my sonne refuse not the Lordes correctiō, neither thynke it long when y^u art …
With rule
… wyl leade vs to that, which the scripture, in an other place, teacheth vs, saiyngsaying: my sonne refuse not the Lordes correctiō, neither thynke it long when y^u art …
John Calvin · The Life of a Christian Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… God. Also when he had sayd of Lazarus, that he was dead, he added, saiyngsaying: I am glad for your sakes, that you maye beleeue. For I was not …
With rule
… God. Also when he had sayd of Lazarus, that he was dead, he added, saiyngsaying: I am glad for your sakes, that you maye beleeue. For I was not …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the number of them was Ten Thouſand times Ten Thouſand, and Thouſands of Thouſands; ſaiyngsaying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was ſlain, to receive Power …
With rule
… the number of them was Ten Thouſand times Ten Thouſand, and Thouſands of Thouſands; ſaiyngsaying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was ſlain, to receive Power …
Samuel Cradock · A Supplement to Knowledge and Practice · p. 36 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel A01304

Printed
… more generally by al kind of good workes, wherof speaketh the Apostle sainct Paule, SaiyngSaying to the Philippians, doe you worke your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng. And …
With rule
… more generally by al kind of good workes, wherof speaketh the Apostle sainct Paule, SaiyngSaying to the Philippians, doe you worke your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng. And …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader