Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4381 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

skiesky

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

Puritas changed it: 987 times in 449 works
Consistency: 100% (987 of 987)
Reach if approved: ~1,037 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sky
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 987 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (987 changes in 449 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 987)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Her skiesky-like arms glitter'd in golden beams,
With rule
Her skiesky-like arms glitter'd in golden beams,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee tread them vnder that rise vp against vs. At what time yonder glorious skiesky, Coelum stellatum, which is now our seeling ouer our heads, shall be but a …
With rule
… wee tread them vnder that rise vp against vs. At what time yonder glorious skiesky, Coelum stellatum, which is now our seeling ouer our heads, shall be but a …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Goe leade a Lyon in a single haire, send vp an Eagle to the skiesky to pecke out a starre, cope vp the thunder, and quench a flaming City …
With rule
… Goe leade a Lyon in a single haire, send vp an Eagle to the skiesky to pecke out a starre, cope vp the thunder, and quench a flaming City …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaieth Saunders. The Scribes in the Goſpell prognoſticated a faire day by a redd skiesky in the evening: And the red by miracle equally diſtinguiſhing the Rainebowe is a …
With rule
… ſaieth Saunders. The Scribes in the Goſpell prognoſticated a faire day by a redd skiesky in the evening: And the red by miracle equally diſtinguiſhing the Rainebowe is a …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in all other realmes of Chriſtendom, and in this our Englande marchinge towards the ſkiesky: but euen of the Nobleſt & ſtatelieſt perſonages, flieng frō this worlde to the heauēly …
With rule
… in all other realmes of Chriſtendom, and in this our Englande marchinge towards the ſkiesky: but euen of the Nobleſt & ſtatelieſt perſonages, flieng frō this worlde to the heauēly …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
Commaunding him with stedfast looke to face the starry SkieSky.
With rule
Commaunding him with stedfast looke to face the starry SkieSky.
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are two: One taken from the heauens, as many as the starres in the skiesky. The other, from the earth, as the sands in the Sea. And these two …
With rule
… are two: One taken from the heauens, as many as the starres in the skiesky. The other, from the earth, as the sands in the Sea. And these two …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faire Cushion of Damaske, with a Carpet of the same; both party coulored of skiesky coulor & purple, the fringe of the Carpet being blew & white.
With rule
… faire Cushion of Damaske, with a Carpet of the same; both party coulored of skiesky coulor & purple, the fringe of the Carpet being blew & white.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 196 · 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.