Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4316 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wryterswriters

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

Puritas changed it: 339 times in 93 works
Consistency: 94.1% (339 of 360)
Reach if approved: ~379 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: writers
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 361 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (339 changes in 93 works, 94.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 339)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I will not be tedyous / I will reherse but fewe / that is / three olde wryterswriters of the Greke churche / and other three of the latine church / which do seeme …
With rule
… I will not be tedyous / I will reherse but fewe / that is / three olde wryterswriters of the Greke churche / and other three of the latine church / which do seeme …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne a fayling or no, I referre it to your conscience. Some of you wryterswriters say thus. Peccatum veniale est quod cum voluntatis deliberatione inordinata homo committit, veniall sinne …
With rule
… sinne a fayling or no, I referre it to your conscience. Some of you wryterswriters say thus. Peccatum veniale est quod cum voluntatis deliberatione inordinata homo committit, veniall sinne …
Laurence Tomson · Answer to Assertions of Fecknam · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyth theſe, albeit one myght make hole bokes to declare & proue that the olde wryterswriters are of oure opinion in thys matter. Neyther let the lytle boke of Eccius …
With rule
… wyth theſe, albeit one myght make hole bokes to declare & proue that the olde wryterswriters are of oure opinion in thys matter. Neyther let the lytle boke of Eccius …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Account Reckoning and Confession of Faith · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Cypriane & Auguſtine: The neglygence of the age y^t is paſſed, & the couetouſnes of wryterswriters & prynters, w^t the ygnoraunce & vnſhamfaſtnes of thē was ſo greate y^t noman can deteſte …
With rule
… of Cypriane & Auguſtine: The neglygence of the age y^t is paſſed, & the couetouſnes of wryterswriters & prynters, w^t the ygnoraunce & vnſhamfaſtnes of thē was ſo greate y^t noman can deteſte …
Henrich Bullinger · Commentary on 2 Thessalonians · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… But peraduenture he ded it, perfunctorie, carptim, or cursim, in maner as y^e olde wryterswriters do report the dogges to drynk in Egypte, rennynge wyth all spedye haste possible …
With rule
… But peraduenture he ded it, perfunctorie, carptim, or cursim, in maner as y^e olde wryterswriters do report the dogges to drynk in Egypte, rennynge wyth all spedye haste possible …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
Pope Clement the .vii. was reported of some wryterswriters to be a bastarde / a manqueller a po…sener / abawde / a symonyake / a Sodomyte …
With rule
Pope Clement the .vii. was reported of some wryterswriters to be a bastarde / a manqueller a po…sener / abawde / a symonyake / a Sodomyte …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greater men of stature and strength of body then other mē wer. For certayne wryterswriters speakynge of thys matter, say: that they were Gyantes for their cruelty and couetous …
With rule
… greater men of stature and strength of body then other mē wer. For certayne wryterswriters speakynge of thys matter, say: that they were Gyantes for their cruelty and couetous …
Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the authority of the holye scriptures, and by the testimonyes of the godly wryterswriters: seynge that the very heathen, which knew not God a right, beynge parswaded … the …
With rule
… by the authority of the holye scriptures, and by the testimonyes of the godly wryterswriters: seynge that the very heathen, which knew not God a right, beynge parswaded … the …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 338 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (21)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to a Jesuit A04922

Printed
… tyme of her baniwement. If master Tyrie be so well sene in the ancient WrytersWriters, as in his wryting he wold shaw him self to be, then can he …
With rule
… tyme of her baniwement. If master Tyrie be so well sene in the ancient WrytersWriters, as in his wryting he wold shaw him self to be, then can he …
John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort A15145

Printed
Item the expoſitions off all auncient Authors and WrytersWriters vpon the ſcripturs that toucheth that matter do alltogether as they ſecure / to gather …
With rule
Item the expoſitions off all auncient Authors and WrytersWriters vpon the ſcripturs that toucheth that matter do alltogether as they ſecure / to gather …
William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. CXXXVI · Open in the reader

A Letter to a Friend Touching Mordecais Age A16987

Printed
… conteyned in proper ſpeeches of the Prophetes. Of them I haue ſeene twelue ſeuerall WrytersWriters touching Eſter: by which all it may be learned, that the Iewes helde Mardochai …
With rule
… conteyned in proper ſpeeches of the Prophetes. Of them I haue ſeene twelue ſeuerall WrytersWriters touching Eſter: by which all it may be learned, that the Iewes helde Mardochai …
Hugh Broughton · A Letter to a Friend Touching Mordecais Age · Open in the reader