Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4345 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyttlelittle

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

Puritas changed it: 316 times in 78 works
Consistency: 99.3% (316 of 318)
Reach if approved: ~334 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: little
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 318 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (316 changes in 78 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 316)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Constantyne the greate, the Christians had no Temples, but secrete and close places: holye lyttlelittle houses, but no greate and gorgious buyldynges: Chappelles, no Temples: Oratoryes within priuate walles …
With rule
… Constantyne the greate, the Christians had no Temples, but secrete and close places: holye lyttlelittle houses, but no greate and gorgious buyldynges: Chappelles, no Temples: Oratoryes within priuate walles …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… anie thing ouer and aboue the principall which was lent, be it neuer so lyttlelittle, eyther in monie, corne, grasse, groundes, landes, meat, drinke, clothes, or anie thing else …
With rule
… anie thing ouer and aboue the principall which was lent, be it neuer so lyttlelittle, eyther in monie, corne, grasse, groundes, landes, meat, drinke, clothes, or anie thing else …
Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
Bycauſe that all the other coulde lyttlelittle ſerue vs wythout thys.
With rule
Bycauſe that all the other coulde lyttlelittle ſerue vs wythout thys.
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne strengthes. Againe: The lawe was geuen for this purpose, of greate to make lyttlelittle, to shewe that thou haste no strengthe of thyne owne to ryghteousnesse, that thou …
With rule
… owne strengthes. Againe: The lawe was geuen for this purpose, of greate to make lyttlelittle, to shewe that thou haste no strengthe of thyne owne to ryghteousnesse, that thou …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… firſt geuē his faith to a yonge gentylman of a highe ſtature with a lyttlelittle abern bearde: and afterwarde the ſeconde tyme had geuen his ſaid faith to the …
With rule
… firſt geuē his faith to a yonge gentylman of a highe ſtature with a lyttlelittle abern bearde: and afterwarde the ſeconde tyme had geuen his ſaid faith to the …
Gaspard Coligny · Answer to Examination · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhortlye braſte forthe ſo farre amonges vs as it dyd amonges the Iewes a lyttlelittle before theyr laſte deſtruccyon, whereof Ioſephus wryteth Ant. xx. cap. iiii.xi.xii. y^t …
With rule
… ſhortlye braſte forthe ſo farre amonges vs as it dyd amonges the Iewes a lyttlelittle before theyr laſte deſtruccyon, whereof Ioſephus wryteth Ant. xx. cap. iiii.xi.xii. y^t …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… lyuely example of all other prynces, their vngratyouse and noughtie eyes are not a lyttlelittle offended. That hys ymages, rellyckes, roodes, torches, candels, copes, ashes, palmes, waxe, water, oyle …
With rule
… lyuely example of all other prynces, their vngratyouse and noughtie eyes are not a lyttlelittle offended. That hys ymages, rellyckes, roodes, torches, candels, copes, ashes, palmes, waxe, water, oyle …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… is? I wyll not tell you dyrectlye. I wyll put you to muse a lyttlelittle. I wyl vtter the matter by a cyrcumloqution. Wher is it? Wher the byshop …
With rule
… is? I wyll not tell you dyrectlye. I wyll put you to muse a lyttlelittle. I wyl vtter the matter by a cyrcumloqution. Wher is it? Wher the byshop …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan A02658

Printed
LyttleLittle good get I, by thys communycacyon.
With rule
LyttleLittle good get I, by thys communycacyon.
John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader

Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites A02738

Printed
LyttleLittle coulde I do, were ye ones from me gone,
With rule
LyttleLittle coulde I do, were ye ones from me gone,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader