Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4235 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

symplesimple

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

Puritas changed it: 288 times in 98 works
Consistency: 99.6% (288 of 289)
Reach if approved: ~304 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: simple
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 289 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (288 changes in 98 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 288)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
If ye wolde accept, my ſymplesimple cumpanye.
With rule
If ye wolde accept, my ſymplesimple cumpanye.
John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader
Printed
… hys cōſcyence ſtandeth clere to the cōtrarie. Vvhat haynouſe treaſō haſt thu done good ſymplesimple manne, that thu ſtandeſt thus forth for a wonder of the worlde? Vvhat ys …
With rule
… hys cōſcyence ſtandeth clere to the cōtrarie. Vvhat haynouſe treaſō haſt thu done good ſymplesimple manne, that thu ſtandeſt thus forth for a wonder of the worlde? Vvhat ys …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
… by imaginacion, tearme it: But the rude lobbes of the countrye, whiche be to symplesimple to paynte a lye, speake foule and truly as thei finde it, and saye …
With rule
… by imaginacion, tearme it: But the rude lobbes of the countrye, whiche be to symplesimple to paynte a lye, speake foule and truly as thei finde it, and saye …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… manner of fasting, because the vngodlye papistes rayle on vs, & cōtinnally beat into the symplesimple peoples heades, y^• we which professe the gospel, abhorre and condempne all fastynge and …
With rule
… manner of fasting, because the vngodlye papistes rayle on vs, & cōtinnally beat into the symplesimple peoples heades, y^• we which professe the gospel, abhorre and condempne all fastynge and …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… the mā ners of diuers men at this tyme, amonge whome some as folyshe symplesimple receyue all kynde of doctryne w^t oute ony probacion or triall, some agayne contrarye …
With rule
… the mā ners of diuers men at this tyme, amonge whome some as folyshe symplesimple receyue all kynde of doctryne w^t oute ony probacion or triall, some agayne contrarye …
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… thanke it deserueth of hym that at length rewardeth all thynges done wyth a symplesimple and pure eye.
With rule
… thanke it deserueth of hym that at length rewardeth all thynges done wyth a symplesimple and pure eye.
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom Book 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the teſtimonies of the ſcriptures: for in this place we may not vnderſtād the ſymplesimple for the foolyſhe and for him that vnderſtandeth nothing, but for him that is …
With rule
… the teſtimonies of the ſcriptures: for in this place we may not vnderſtād the ſymplesimple for the foolyſhe and for him that vnderſtandeth nothing, but for him that is …
Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in puttynge a diuer …e betwene them. Wherfore it shall suffise to admonisshe the symplesimple sorte, leste when we speake agaynst the art of foreshewyng by the starres, they …
With rule
… in puttynge a diuer …e betwene them. Wherfore it shall suffise to admonisshe the symplesimple sorte, leste when we speake agaynst the art of foreshewyng by the starres, they …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · 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.

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

Printed
A Sillogiſme is eyther ſymplesimple or compounde. SympleSimple when the partes of the queſtion are diſponed with the argumē te, ſo that …
With rule
A Sillogiſme is eyther ſymplesimple or compounde. SympleSimple when the partes of the queſtion are diſponed with the argumē te, ſo that …
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 52 · Open in the reader