Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4331 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fylthyfilthy

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

Puritas changed it: 200 times in 65 works
Consistency: 99.5% (200 of 201)
Reach if approved: ~211 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: filthy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 201 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (200 changes in 65 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 200)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ye he called vnto: then ſe you deale iuſtly in all poyntes, & folowe not fylthyfilthy lucre to make your children Lordes, but ſtudye to furniſh them w^t al knowledge …
With rule
… ye he called vnto: then ſe you deale iuſtly in all poyntes, & folowe not fylthyfilthy lucre to make your children Lordes, but ſtudye to furniſh them w^t al knowledge …
Robert Crowley · The Way to Wealth · Open in the reader
Printed
And white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that thy fylthyfilthy nakednes do not appeare. &c. For he was naked so that his filthynes was …
With rule
And white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that thy fylthyfilthy nakednes do not appeare. &c. For he was naked so that his filthynes was …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… to printe heauenly documentes in their hartes. For as euyll doctrine, deuilysh bokes, and fylthyfilthy talke do corrupt good maners: so faithfull preceptes, godly bokes, chast commonynge and honest …
With rule
… to printe heauenly documentes in their hartes. For as euyll doctrine, deuilysh bokes, and fylthyfilthy talke do corrupt good maners: so faithfull preceptes, godly bokes, chast commonynge and honest …
Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… thē, not as though they were compelled, but wyllinglye, not for the desyre of fylthyfilthy lucre, but of a good mind, not as lordes, ouer the Paryshes, but that …
With rule
… thē, not as though they were compelled, but wyllinglye, not for the desyre of fylthyfilthy lucre, but of a good mind, not as lordes, ouer the Paryshes, but that …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. lix · Open in the reader
Printed
… generacion of vipers searche and iudge y^e moost sacred word of God? With how fylthyfilthy & vnwasshed feete do those swynysh and beastlike parsonnes enter into the swete and pleasaunt …
With rule
… generacion of vipers searche and iudge y^e moost sacred word of God? With how fylthyfilthy & vnwasshed feete do those swynysh and beastlike parsonnes enter into the swete and pleasaunt …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… falſe doctryne and ſalteth the law, to purge it of the corrupcion of their fylthyfilthy gloſes, and to brynge it vnto y^e ryght taſt and true vnderſtandynge agayne.
With rule
… falſe doctryne and ſalteth the law, to purge it of the corrupcion of their fylthyfilthy gloſes, and to brynge it vnto y^e ryght taſt and true vnderſtandynge agayne.
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xlvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… many hipocrytes which pretend to be as holy and deuowt as angels thorow their fylthyfilthy wyueles life / and abstynence from meates / and difference of garmentes / he reproueth this doctrine …
With rule
… many hipocrytes which pretend to be as holy and deuowt as angels thorow their fylthyfilthy wyueles life / and abstynence from meates / and difference of garmentes / he reproueth this doctrine …
Alexander Alesius · The Authority of the Word of God Against the Bishop of London · Open in the reader
Printed
… into warre, and trauell in the ſame, muſt not ſet their eye eyther vpon fylthyfilthy lucre nor voluptouſnes, as they lyghtly do whan Ieoperdy is paſt, but iuſtice, peace …
With rule
… into warre, and trauell in the ſame, muſt not ſet their eye eyther vpon fylthyfilthy lucre nor voluptouſnes, as they lyghtly do whan Ieoperdy is paſt, but iuſtice, peace …
Henrich Bullinger · Sermon Concerning Magistrates · 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 Golden Book of Christian Matrimony A17171

Printed
… it is nothyng elles but open vyce & abhominacion before God and all honest people. FylthyFilthy is fylthynes styll, althoughe the fylthyfilthy swyne delyte therin, They speke much of euyll …
With rule
… it is nothyng elles but open vyce & abhominacion before God and all honest people. FylthyFilthy is fylthynes styll, althoughe the fylthyfilthy swyne delyte therin, They speke much of euyll …
Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · Open in the reader