Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4336 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plaiedplayed

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

Puritas changed it: 198 times in 131 works
Consistency: 100% (198 of 198)
Reach if approved: ~208 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: played
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 198 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (198 changes in 131 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 198)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Fable! this the History! that these gelded Priests wore also long womanish attire, plaiedplayed on tymbrelles and cornets, sacrificed to their Goddesse the ninth day of the Moone …
With rule
… the Fable! this the History! that these gelded Priests wore also long womanish attire, plaiedplayed on tymbrelles and cornets, sacrificed to their Goddesse the ninth day of the Moone …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon the svvord of Iehu. After vvhose death the Queene mother and dovvagier Athalia, plaiedplayed Rex and slew al the princes of the blood and peeres of Iudah. All …
With rule
… vpon the svvord of Iehu. After vvhose death the Queene mother and dovvagier Athalia, plaiedplayed Rex and slew al the princes of the blood and peeres of Iudah. All …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… whore of Rome, now to hate her: and other princes must followe, and had plaiedplayed their parts ere this, but that our diffident, faint, and distrustfull hearts, are an …
With rule
… whore of Rome, now to hate her: and other princes must followe, and had plaiedplayed their parts ere this, but that our diffident, faint, and distrustfull hearts, are an …
Andrew Willet · A Catholicon · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to thine hand, vnto thy ſeruants, and to thy ſonne Dauid. Dauid thou haſt plaiedplayed the Orator moſt excellently, paſſions in thy ſelfe, and ſtrong arguments to Nabal, eſpecially …
With rule
… to thine hand, vnto thy ſeruants, and to thy ſonne Dauid. Dauid thou haſt plaiedplayed the Orator moſt excellently, paſſions in thy ſelfe, and ſtrong arguments to Nabal, eſpecially …
John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now and then, and sometime for a long time, when it is loathed, and plaiedplayed withall, and trode vnder foote, and all this the Lord dooth in singular wisdome …
With rule
… now and then, and sometime for a long time, when it is loathed, and plaiedplayed withall, and trode vnder foote, and all this the Lord dooth in singular wisdome …
William Burton · The Rousing of the Sluggard · Open in the reader
Printed
… one of them can subsist, then M^r. B. presumeth that Abraham would not haue plaiedplayed at Cards or Dice, nor no other godly man: And what then? Why? Then …
With rule
… one of them can subsist, then M^r. B. presumeth that Abraham would not haue plaiedplayed at Cards or Dice, nor no other godly man: And what then? Why? Then …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhould aske ſo ſpeedie, and ſo deepe repentance. This falſe Tricke we read Saul plaiedplayed. When he had preuented the appointment of Samuel for ſolemne ſacrificing at Gilgal, (which …
With rule
… ſhould aske ſo ſpeedie, and ſo deepe repentance. This falſe Tricke we read Saul plaiedplayed. When he had preuented the appointment of Samuel for ſolemne ſacrificing at Gilgal, (which …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most famous, and renoumed Heretikes, notorious blasphemers of God, and shameles deriders, which haue plaiedplayed mocke holie daye with all religious and godlie setuice. For in place of the …
With rule
… most famous, and renoumed Heretikes, notorious blasphemers of God, and shameles deriders, which haue plaiedplayed mocke holie daye with all religious and godlie setuice. For in place of the …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.