Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4277 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ymageimage

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

Puritas changed it: 211 times in 64 works
Consistency: 95.4% (211 of 221)
Reach if approved: ~232 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: image
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 221 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (211 changes in 64 works, 95.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 211)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of god: that is to saye / all haue loste that glorious symylitude and beutifull ymageimage of god wherin man was fyrste created an innocent perfyte without spot or tymple …
With rule
… of god: that is to saye / all haue loste that glorious symylitude and beutifull ymageimage of god wherin man was fyrste created an innocent perfyte without spot or tymple …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Reckoning and Declaration of Faith and Belief · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the kote brēning ouen / then they wolde outwardly bowe them ſelues to the ymageimage that the Kyng hath ſet vp. Therfore Chriſtē Reader do I the exhorte yet …
With rule
… in the kote brēning ouen / then they wolde outwardly bowe them ſelues to the ymageimage that the Kyng hath ſet vp. Therfore Chriſtē Reader do I the exhorte yet …
Henrich Bullinger · Two Epistles · Open in the reader
Printed
… figure hath the name of the thyng that is signifyed thereby. As a mannes ymageimage is called a man, a Lyons image, a Lyon: a byrdes image, a byrde …
With rule
… figure hath the name of the thyng that is signifyed thereby. As a mannes ymageimage is called a man, a Lyons image, a Lyon: a byrdes image, a byrde …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of latyn into Englyſh, a boke, whyche maye ryght wel be called: Thee ymageimage of bothe paſtoures, ſette forthe by that moſt famous clerke Huldryche zwinglius Byſſhop of …
With rule
… out of latyn into Englyſh, a boke, whyche maye ryght wel be called: Thee ymageimage of bothe paſtoures, ſette forthe by that moſt famous clerke Huldryche zwinglius Byſſhop of …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Image of Both Pastors Set Forth · Open in the reader
Printed
… nede not to describe. For the verye worke it selfe setteth forth his lyuelye ymageimage. It manyfestlye declareth him a braynelesse babler / a presumptuouse ydyote / a frantyck Papist / a …
With rule
… nede not to describe. For the verye worke it selfe setteth forth his lyuelye ymageimage. It manyfestlye declareth him a braynelesse babler / a presumptuouse ydyote / a frantyck Papist / a …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Romains, and therfore vsed they the Romayne quoine, that had vpon it bothe Ceasers ymageimage and Ceasers superscription.
With rule
… Romains, and therfore vsed they the Romayne quoine, that had vpon it bothe Ceasers ymageimage and Ceasers superscription.
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God. Roma. viii. For after the tyme that God had made man, after hys ymageimage and symilytude, he seate hym in Paradise that he shoulde eate of all the …
With rule
… God. Roma. viii. For after the tyme that God had made man, after hys ymageimage and symilytude, he seate hym in Paradise that he shoulde eate of all the …
Thomas Becon · The Solace of the Soul Against the Bitter Storms of Sickness and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… meale, whiche was a ryght precyouse thyng, was bowght for very litle money. The ymageimage is nothyng necessarye to mans lyfe, but without meale we can not lyue. Wherfore …
With rule
… meale, whiche was a ryght precyouse thyng, was bowght for very litle money. The ymageimage is nothyng necessarye to mans lyfe, but without meale we can not lyue. Wherfore …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
YmageImage worſhyppinge cōmaūded of byſſhoppes. 15. b
With rule
YmageImage worſhyppinge cōmaūded of byſſhoppes. 15. b
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
YmageImage of both churches, a boke. 8. a 40 a
With rule
YmageImage of both churches, a boke. 8. a 40 a
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
YmageImage of the beaſt, worſhiped. 12. b 40 a
With rule
YmageImage of the beaſt, worſhiped. 12. b 40 a
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader