Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4318 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yroniron

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

Puritas changed it: 1,419 times in 431 works
Consistency: 97.1% (1,419 of 1,461)
Reach if approved: ~1,535 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: iron
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,461 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,419 changes in 431 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,419)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Gregory saith) the fyery fornace to the golde, and the polishinge fyle to the yroniron, the same doth aduersyte to the ryghtouse man, for it maketh hym perfyght. Wicked …
With rule
… Gregory saith) the fyery fornace to the golde, and the polishinge fyle to the yroniron, the same doth aduersyte to the ryghtouse man, for it maketh hym perfyght. Wicked …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeaſon! Prov. 25. and 11. when a man ſayles with the Tide, and ſtrikes while the yroniron is hot, and not to delay duties to a crowd, then is the ſeaſon …
With rule
… ſeaſon! Prov. 25. and 11. when a man ſayles with the Tide, and ſtrikes while the yroniron is hot, and not to delay duties to a crowd, then is the ſeaſon …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euery mans hart by nature: hence are thoſe ſpeeches, a braſen fore-head, an yroniron ſinew. &c.
With rule
… euery mans hart by nature: hence are thoſe ſpeeches, a braſen fore-head, an yroniron ſinew. &c.
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… leven, and maketh us a new lump. Secondly, the fire of affliction softneth our yroniron hearts, and prepareth them for the hammar of the Word, to frame us after …
With rule
… leven, and maketh us a new lump. Secondly, the fire of affliction softneth our yroniron hearts, and prepareth them for the hammar of the Word, to frame us after …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… clowde, and being quē ched in it, causeth that great thonder, euen as whoat yroniron maketh a noyce if it be cast into colde water. But it is euident …
With rule
… clowde, and being quē ched in it, causeth that great thonder, euen as whoat yroniron maketh a noyce if it be cast into colde water. But it is euident …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader
Printed
… them to be an hard people: that their necke was as a barre of yroniron, and their forehead of braſſe, and that they would deale vnfaithfully. Eſay. 48. verſ. 4. 8. Yet …
With rule
… them to be an hard people: that their necke was as a barre of yroniron, and their forehead of braſſe, and that they would deale vnfaithfully. Eſay. 48. verſ. 4. 8. Yet …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
The gathering together of wood, ſtone, lime, yroniron, lead, &c. and the building of our houſes therewith, is not the chiefe end …
With rule
The gathering together of wood, ſtone, lime, yroniron, lead, &c. and the building of our houſes therewith, is not the chiefe end …
Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who are of alike temper in their Faces, as Nebuchadnezar's Image was in his yroniron legs, being suteable of a whorish fore-head, that cannot bee ashamed, who are …
With rule
… who are of alike temper in their Faces, as Nebuchadnezar's Image was in his yroniron legs, being suteable of a whorish fore-head, that cannot bee ashamed, who are …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (42)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

Printed
… madest heretofore the heauen aboue vs as brasse, and the earth vnder vs as YronIron. By drunkennesse and gluttony, by euill perswasions and worse examples, one soule hath infected …
With rule
… madest heretofore the heauen aboue vs as brasse, and the earth vnder vs as YronIron. By drunkennesse and gluttony, by euill perswasions and worse examples, one soule hath infected …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

Printed
… scortationem alliciantur. O golden sentence, and vvorthy to be engraven with a pen of YronIron, and the point of a Diamond! For most needfull it is to consider, that …
With rule
… scortationem alliciantur. O golden sentence, and vvorthy to be engraven with a pen of YronIron, and the point of a Diamond! For most needfull it is to consider, that …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 31 · Open in the reader

The Sacrifice of Thankfulness A02367

Printed
… Philistines Sampson, or the Iaylor his f…gitiue Prisoner, with Cordes, with Cordes of YronIron; that it may not start from them, and run away.
With rule
… Philistines Sampson, or the Iaylor his f…gitiue Prisoner, with Cordes, with Cordes of YronIron; that it may not start from them, and run away.
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 22 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… required Wealth, Health, Uertue, and Policie. For want and pouertie, bée as Fetters of YronIron to a weldisposed mynd: a sickely and diseased body, is as a torture to …
With rule
… required Wealth, Health, Uertue, and Policie. For want and pouertie, bée as Fetters of YronIron to a weldisposed mynd: a sickely and diseased body, is as a torture to …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 335 · Open in the reader

The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World A09841

Printed
… being of Brasse, betokeneth the Macedonian Monarchie, obtayned by great Alexander: The legges of YronIron, and feete partely of YronIron, partely of clay, that of the Romanes or the …
With rule
… being of Brasse, betokeneth the Macedonian Monarchie, obtayned by great Alexander: The legges of YronIron, and feete partely of YronIron, partely of clay, that of the Romanes or the …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Macedonian Monarchie, obtayned by great Alexander: The legges of YronIron, and feete partely of YronIron, partely of clay, that of the Romanes or the feete, as others, interprete the …
With rule
… Macedonian Monarchie, obtayned by great Alexander: The legges of YronIron, and feete partely of YronIron, partely of clay, that of the Romanes or the feete, as others, interprete the …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 35 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… Rice, Sagu, and Fruits. Their riches are Pepper, Ginger, Cassia, Silke, Benioyn, Gold, Tinne, YronIron, &c. The Kingdome of Campa is full of Trees, whose pith or marrow is …
With rule
… Rice, Sagu, and Fruits. Their riches are Pepper, Ginger, Cassia, Silke, Benioyn, Gold, Tinne, YronIron, &c. The Kingdome of Campa is full of Trees, whose pith or marrow is …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 457 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Oh Aegypt! wonderfull in Nature, whose Heauen is brasse, and yet thine Earth not YronIron, wonderfull for Antiquitie, Arts and Armes, but no way so wonderfull, as in thy …
With rule
… Oh Aegypt! wonderfull in Nature, whose Heauen is brasse, and yet thine Earth not YronIron, wonderfull for Antiquitie, Arts and Armes, but no way so wonderfull, as in thy …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 470 · Open in the reader
Printed
… weapons were stones and staues. They shaued their heads with sharpe stones like flints. YronIron they had not: gold they respected not. The women nursed not their children, but …
With rule
… weapons were stones and staues. They shaued their heads with sharpe stones like flints. YronIron they had not: gold they respected not. The women nursed not their children, but …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 596 · Open in the reader
Printed
… veine of Allum, of Terra Sigillata, Pitch, Tarre, Rozen, Turpentine, Sassafras, Cedar, Grapes, Oile, YronIron, Copper, and the hope of better Mines, Pearle, sweet Gummes, Dies, timber Trees of …
With rule
… veine of Allum, of Terra Sigillata, Pitch, Tarre, Rozen, Turpentine, Sassafras, Cedar, Grapes, Oile, YronIron, Copper, and the hope of better Mines, Pearle, sweet Gummes, Dies, timber Trees of …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 635 · Open in the reader

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
… any euill that wee haue done that is not written with a penne of YronIron, and with the point of a Diamond in the booke of the conscience, Ierem …
With rule
… any euill that wee haue done that is not written with a penne of YronIron, and with the point of a Diamond in the booke of the conscience, Ierem …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics A13877

Printed
… bee able as eaſelye to breake them, as a Manne wyth a barre of YronIron dooth daſhe in peeces a Potte of earth.
With rule
… bee able as eaſelye to breake them, as a Manne wyth a barre of YronIron dooth daſhe in peeces a Potte of earth.
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 105 · Open in the reader

Observations Natural and Moral A14910

Printed
… bruſed & ſometimes they may be hewed, but they cannot be melted as the mettalls. YronIron, braſſe, and Lead, have more earth in them, than the gold or ſilver, as …
With rule
… bruſed & ſometimes they may be hewed, but they cannot be melted as the mettalls. YronIron, braſſe, and Lead, have more earth in them, than the gold or ſilver, as …
John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 41 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

Printed
… for then the heauen ouer vs shall be Brasse, and the earth vnder vs YronIron.
With rule
… for then the heauen ouer vs shall be Brasse, and the earth vnder vs YronIron.
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 11 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

Printed
… out without hands, is able to bruise & grinde in powder, their Golde, Siluer, Brasse, YronIron, and Clay, for the allaying of the pride of their peacocke feathers: Hee can …
With rule
… out without hands, is able to bruise & grinde in powder, their Golde, Siluer, Brasse, YronIron, and Clay, for the allaying of the pride of their peacocke feathers: Hee can …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 546 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
YronIron bar]
With rule
YronIron bar]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 750 · Open in the reader
Printed
YronIron furnace]
With rule
YronIron furnace]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 750 · Open in the reader
Printed
YronIron pan]
With rule
YronIron pan]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 750 · Open in the reader
Printed
YronIron sinew]
With rule
YronIron sinew]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 750 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
HItherto my Refuters YronIron hath beene as Straw, his Braſſe as rotten Wood, his Sling-ſtones as ſtubble …
With rule
HItherto my Refuters YronIron hath beene as Straw, his Braſſe as rotten Wood, his Sling-ſtones as ſtubble …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 755 · Open in the reader

Epistles Volume 1 B13860

Printed
… to the Spa, a Village famous for hir medicinall and minerall waters, compounded of YronIron & Coperice; the vertue wherof yet the simple inhabitant ascribes to their beneficial Saint, whose …
With rule
… to the Spa, a Village famous for hir medicinall and minerall waters, compounded of YronIron & Coperice; the vertue wherof yet the simple inhabitant ascribes to their beneficial Saint, whose …
Joseph Hall · Epistles Volume 1 · p. 40 · Open in the reader