Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4248 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hyredhired

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

Puritas changed it: 318 times in 168 works
Consistency: 99.3% (318 of 320)
Reach if approved: ~336 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hired
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 320 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (318 changes in 168 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 318)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… keepe, communed with the Iewes, and for two yeeres ſpace remained in an houſe hyredhired for himſelfe, and receiued all that came vnto him and preached the kingdome of …
With rule
… keepe, communed with the Iewes, and for two yeeres ſpace remained in an houſe hyredhired for himſelfe, and receiued all that came vnto him and preached the kingdome of …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… One of thē was anſwered, that he ſhould take his peny, wherefore he was hyredhired, & if the houſholder would be more liberall to them that laboured leſſe, what was …
With rule
… One of thē was anſwered, that he ſhould take his peny, wherefore he was hyredhired, & if the houſholder would be more liberall to them that laboured leſſe, what was …
John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against Sathans discouragements. Some are so faulty this way, as if they had beene hyredhired by Sathan the Accuser of the Brethren, to plead for him, in accusing themselves.
With rule
… against Sathans discouragements. Some are so faulty this way, as if they had beene hyredhired by Sathan the Accuser of the Brethren, to plead for him, in accusing themselves.
Richard Sibbes · The Bruised Reed · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Arte of Printing bookes: all thinges were certifie… by the industrie of wryting… and hyredhired trauaile of wryters: yea the same also not obteyned without greate charges and costes …
With rule
… Arte of Printing bookes: all thinges were certifie… by the industrie of wryting… and hyredhired trauaile of wryters: yea the same also not obteyned without greate charges and costes …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… a time, whō I knewe. In remouynge from Boston to Eye in Sothfolke, he hyredhired. iii. cartes for conueyenge of hys stuffe thydre. But whā it come to the …
With rule
… a time, whō I knewe. In remouynge from Boston to Eye in Sothfolke, he hyredhired. iii. cartes for conueyenge of hys stuffe thydre. But whā it come to the …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. cxxii · Open in the reader
Printed
… no more worthy to be called thy ſonne, make me as one of thy hyredhired ſervants. Then the ſoule doth put a prize upon Chriſt, and returneth to him …
With rule
… no more worthy to be called thy ſonne, make me as one of thy hyredhired ſervants. Then the ſoule doth put a prize upon Chriſt, and returneth to him …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a type of the other. Hee that betrayed Chriſt, was one of his diſciples hyredhired therevnto with thirtie pieces of ſiluer, who after that hee ſawe him condemned, brought …
With rule
… a type of the other. Hee that betrayed Chriſt, was one of his diſciples hyredhired therevnto with thirtie pieces of ſiluer, who after that hee ſawe him condemned, brought …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… out the filthy swyne and wylde bores, that haue spoyled hys vineyarde, and hath hyredhired laborers to husband it agayne, that it may yeld hym frute now at haruest …
With rule
… out the filthy swyne and wylde bores, that haue spoyled hys vineyarde, and hath hyredhired laborers to husband it agayne, that it may yeld hym frute now at haruest …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Mercy Magnified A66106

Printed
… have no particular alluſion, but only to be a comparative illuſtration of Divine bounty: HyredHired ſervants in great houſes are not wont to be greatly cared for; he is …
With rule
… have no particular alluſion, but only to be a comparative illuſtration of Divine bounty: HyredHired ſervants in great houſes are not wont to be greatly cared for; he is …
Samuel Willard · Mercy Magnified · p. 186 · Open in the reader