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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4367 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sometymesometime

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

Puritas changed it
478 times in 137 works
Consistency
95.2% (478 of 502)
Reach if approved
~527 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sometime
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
502 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (478 changes in 137 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 478)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … redde in their Churches, if it be that of the yeare 1577. it is worse sometymesometime in this matter of images, than the other. For where the other readeth, Couetousnes …
    With rule
    … redde in their Churches, if it be that of the yeare 1577. it is worse sometymesometime in this matter of images, than the other. For where the other readeth, Couetousnes …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vpon my Bearde and bosome, and hys other hande sometymesometime on hys Dagger and sometymesometime bent it ouer my heade, as thoughe he wolde haue buffetted me on the …
    With rule
    … vpon my Bearde and bosome, and hys other hande sometymesometime on hys Dagger and sometymesometime bent it ouer my heade, as thoughe he wolde haue buffetted me on the …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … loue it ſelf: for though they agre not alwayes & in al places with themſelues, & ſometymesometime they take this word loue, as is ſtādeth, for loue in deed, yet in …
    With rule
    … loue it ſelf: for though they agre not alwayes & in al places with themſelues, & ſometymesometime they take this word loue, as is ſtādeth, for loue in deed, yet in …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    These be two thinges, so oft to seke mere images, & sometymesometime to visite the relikes of saintes. And yet as in those, there may be …
    With rule
    These be two thinges, so oft to seke mere images, & sometymesometime to visite the relikes of saintes. And yet as in those, there may be …

    Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … tryall of tribulation: vnles thou thou haſt felt thy ſelfe to haue bene brought ſometymesometime euen vnto the gates of hell (as we ſee in Dauid and other Saints …
    With rule
    … tryall of tribulation: vnles thou thou haſt felt thy ſelfe to haue bene brought ſometymesometime euen vnto the gates of hell (as we ſee in Dauid and other Saints …

    Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … any necessarye thynge, if we loue God & obey hys word The fayethful maye perchaunce sometymesometime fele the dart of pouertie, yet wyll not God leaue theim socourles and destitute …
    With rule
    … any necessarye thynge, if we loue God & obey hys word The fayethful maye perchaunce sometymesometime fele the dart of pouertie, yet wyll not God leaue theim socourles and destitute …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of great perſons paſſed all, ſometymesometime, affection gouerned Iuſtice and not Iuſtice affection / And ſometymesometime by the dictes and ſayinges of the lawe ſo craftely wreſted, Iuſtice beare no …
    With rule
    … of great perſons paſſed all, ſometymesometime, affection gouerned Iuſtice and not Iuſtice affection / And ſometymesometime by the dictes and ſayinges of the lawe ſo craftely wreſted, Iuſtice beare no …

    Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſhould not be done in the day. This ſhould be commonly keeped, albeit neceſſitie ſometymesometime compels otherwaies. There are ſome actions that are ſeemelie to be done in the …
    With rule
    … ſhould not be done in the day. This ſhould be commonly keeped, albeit neceſſitie ſometymesometime compels otherwaies. There are ſome actions that are ſeemelie to be done in the …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 254 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

21 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Goodly Gallery A01313

  • Printed
    … so appeareth as though a Starre should fall, or slyde from place to place. SometymeSometime it is generated after another sort, for there is an exhalatiō long and narrowe …
    With rule
    … so appeareth as though a Starre should fall, or slyde from place to place. SometymeSometime it is generated after another sort, for there is an exhalatiō long and narrowe …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … striken downe to the earth, it blasteth corne, and grasse, with other small hurt. SometymeSometime it setteth a barne or thacked house on fyere. The collour of this lightninge …
    With rule
    … striken downe to the earth, it blasteth corne, and grasse, with other small hurt. SometymeSometime it setteth a barne or thacked house on fyere. The collour of this lightninge …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SometymeSometime lyghtening burneth only the garmentes, shoes, or heare of mē, not hurtynge theyr bodyes …
    With rule
    SometymeSometime lyghtening burneth only the garmentes, shoes, or heare of mē, not hurtynge theyr bodyes …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SOmetymeSometime a whirlewynde, is sett on fyre within the cloude, and then breakyng foorthe, flyeth …
    With rule
    SOmetymeSometime a whirlewynde, is sett on fyre within the cloude, and then breakyng foorthe, flyeth …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … séen only in the edge of a cloude, all the breadth of that cloude. SometymeSometime through the middes of a cloude, being thynner there, then in other partes, and …
    With rule
    … séen only in the edge of a cloude, all the breadth of that cloude. SometymeSometime through the middes of a cloude, being thynner there, then in other partes, and …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils A01718

  • Printed
    … hartes, and illusions of vncleane spirites which alwaies counterfait the holy spirite of God. SometymeSometime the deuill did inspire them, and shew them visions, as if he had bene …
    With rule
    … hartes, and illusions of vncleane spirites which alwaies counterfait the holy spirite of God. SometymeSometime the deuill did inspire them, and shew them visions, as if he had bene …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is clere what effect it wrought, for both the Prophets and Ahab were …eceiued. SometymeSometime the Lord himselfe did speake vnto Kosem, though we neuer read that any true …
    With rule
    … is clere what effect it wrought, for both the Prophets and Ahab were …eceiued. SometymeSometime the Lord himselfe did speake vnto Kosem, though we neuer read that any true …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester A01752

  • Printed
    … not be caſte to the hogges. He wonderfully enſtructed his diſciples of his departyng. SometymeSometime in parabbles, ſo… tyme wythout parables, in thys and the. ii. chapters folowing. Wheras …
    With rule
    … not be caſte to the hogges. He wonderfully enſtructed his diſciples of his departyng. SometymeSometime in parabbles, ſo… tyme wythout parables, in thys and the. ii. chapters folowing. Wheras …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. xxxxvi · Open in the reader

Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered A03827

  • Printed
    … be changed, quhairof he cannot render a reason, but as the spirit mouis him: SometymeSometime, he wil be fervent in praier, sometime cold and remitted: Sometime, he wil pray …
    With rule
    … be changed, quhairof he cannot render a reason, but as the spirit mouis him: SometymeSometime, he wil be fervent in praier, sometime cold and remitted: Sometime, he wil pray …

    Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 41 · Open in the reader

The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption A04221

  • Printed
    … thus diſquieted with this care. There is no reaſon or likelyhood for it. Obiection. SometymeSometime they thinke, it maye ſignifie compaſsion for his Countrie-men the Iewes: who did …
    With rule
    … thus diſquieted with this care. There is no reaſon or likelyhood for it. Obiection. SometymeSometime they thinke, it maye ſignifie compaſsion for his Countrie-men the Iewes: who did …

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 59 · Open in the reader

A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London A04917

  • Printed
    SometymeSometime prolongeth the deliueraūce of hys choſen / and ſometime permitteth them to drinke / before the …
    With rule
    SometymeSometime prolongeth the deliueraūce of hys choſen / and ſometime permitteth them to drinke / before the …

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

  • Printed
    SometymeSometime we argue or reaſon from the generall to the ſpeciall: as, All men maye …
    With rule
    SometymeSometime we argue or reaſon from the generall to the ſpeciall: as, All men maye …

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … if any thing be more then thoſe thre partes, it is called a Proſillogiſme. SometymeSometime alſo the order is confounded: therfore yf any doubte ſhall ryſe throughe any of …
    With rule
    … if any thing be more then thoſe thre partes, it is called a Proſillogiſme. SometymeSometime alſo the order is confounded: therfore yf any doubte ſhall ryſe throughe any of …

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 80 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A06504

  • Printed
    … to plough with Oxen according to the prouerbe. So it fareth in worldly affayres: SometymeSometime there is a good Prince, but he is not able to ſée that all …
    With rule
    … to plough with Oxen according to the prouerbe. So it fareth in worldly affayres: SometymeSometime there is a good Prince, but he is not able to ſée that all …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … remiſſe, nor too preciſe. Sometimes diſſemble the lawes & equitie, as though thou were wicked. SometymeSometime agayne, lay holde on the lawe, and ſhew thy ſelfe iuſt. But remember that …
    With rule
    … remiſſe, nor too preciſe. Sometimes diſſemble the lawes & equitie, as though thou were wicked. SometymeSometime agayne, lay holde on the lawe, and ſhew thy ſelfe iuſt. But remember that …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … some fall into a consumption, which …ant not the perfect vse of their Sences. SometymeSometime the reasonable part is so earnestly bent and occupyed about the things that i …
    With rule
    … some fall into a consumption, which …ant not the perfect vse of their Sences. SometymeSometime the reasonable part is so earnestly bent and occupyed about the things that i …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 226 · Open in the reader

Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs A10777

  • Printed
    … Martyrs of Christe / D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London / and M. Hughe Latymer SometymeSometime Bysshoppe of Worcester / during the tyme of theyr emprysonmentes.
    With rule
    … Martyrs of Christe / D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London / and M. Hughe Latymer SometymeSometime Bysshoppe of Worcester / during the tyme of theyr emprysonmentes.

    Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader

A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments A16615

  • Printed
    … but that ſome are ſomtymes repealed by Higher courts, and ſometymes revoked by themſelues. SometymeSometime alſo they meddle with matters not belonging unto them, and therfore by ordinary courſe …
    With rule
    … but that ſome are ſomtymes repealed by Higher courts, and ſometymes revoked by themſelues. SometymeSometime alſo they meddle with matters not belonging unto them, and therfore by ordinary courſe …

    William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 88 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

  • Printed
    … of action, whiche thyng Cicero thynketh to be expressed by this worde ingenium, witte. SometymeSometime they saye it is practicall, whiche by conceyuyng of good or euill doeth diuersely …
    With rule
    … of action, whiche thyng Cicero thynketh to be expressed by this worde ingenium, witte. SometymeSometime they saye it is practicall, whiche by conceyuyng of good or euill doeth diuersely …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … astonished, that they can not will or goe about that whiche they haue conceiued. SometymeSometime also when he hath suffred them to go about that whiche luste and rage …
    With rule
    … astonished, that they can not will or goe about that whiche they haue conceiued. SometymeSometime also when he hath suffred them to go about that whiche luste and rage …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 64 · Open in the reader

Against the Errors of the Anabaptists A17726

  • Printed
    SometymeSometime it is taken for the wyll or the deſyre, as where it is ſayed …
    With rule
    SometymeSometime it is taken for the wyll or the deſyre, as where it is ſayed …

    John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader