Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4361 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

profytprofit

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

Puritas changed it: 180 times in 61 works
Consistency: 98.9% (180 of 182)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: profit
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (180 changes in 61 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 180)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… works and alway speaking, that whiche may make vnto thy glory▪ and vnto the profytprofit of our Christen brethrē. The tong rightli vsed, is the organ of the holy …
With rule
… works and alway speaking, that whiche may make vnto thy glory▪ and vnto the profytprofit of our Christen brethrē. The tong rightli vsed, is the organ of the holy …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. cxxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
What should it profytprofit a man, yf he had all the riches of the world, lyued an whole …
With rule
What should it profytprofit a man, yf he had all the riches of the world, lyued an whole …
Thomas Becon · The Physic of the Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke, to honour God withall, and with out all maner respect, seke oure neyghbours profytprofit, and do hym seruice.
With rule
… worke, to honour God withall, and with out all maner respect, seke oure neyghbours profytprofit, and do hym seruice.
William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader
Printed
… my wrytynges for other men to reade, not that I wolde others not to profytprofit by me: but that I knowing how ſhort my ſuppellex & ſtore as, woulde be …
With rule
… my wrytynges for other men to reade, not that I wolde others not to profytprofit by me: but that I knowing how ſhort my ſuppellex & ſtore as, woulde be …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… that, that his ioye ſhould be ful, if he might behold in déede the profytprofit in pietie. For both the ioye of godlie men is fulfilled, when we rightlie …
With rule
… that, that his ioye ſhould be ful, if he might behold in déede the profytprofit in pietie. For both the ioye of godlie men is fulfilled, when we rightlie …
John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be leuied & al other assurācies to be made of any such personage or profytprofit ecclesiastical shalbe hereafter deuised & graunted there, lyke as hath bene vsed for fynes to …
With rule
… to be leuied & al other assurācies to be made of any such personage or profytprofit ecclesiastical shalbe hereafter deuised & graunted there, lyke as hath bene vsed for fynes to …
Richard Taverner · The Principal Laws of England · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… concorde, they do it for none other cauſe, but that they hauing gottē ſome profytprofit, may afterwardes ſtyrre vp greater tragedyes of marres, in ſo moch that to heare …
With rule
… concorde, they do it for none other cauſe, but that they hauing gottē ſome profytprofit, may afterwardes ſtyrre vp greater tragedyes of marres, in ſo moch that to heare …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Image of Both Pastors Set Forth · Open in the reader
Printed
… enormitye is thys in a chrystian realme to serue in a ciuilitye, hauyng the profytprofit of a Prouostshyp and a Deanry, and a Personage?
With rule
… enormitye is thys in a chrystian realme to serue in a ciuilitye, hauyng the profytprofit of a Prouostshyp and a Deanry, and a Personage?
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)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.