Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4480 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

silliesilly

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

Puritas changed it: 582 times in 185 works
Consistency: 98.6% (582 of 590)
Reach if approved: ~620 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: silly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 590 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (582 changes in 185 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 582)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… This particular much concerneth us; for we thinke that the whole nation (save a silliesilly few) have contented it self with the form of government, and worship prescribed in …
With rule
… This particular much concerneth us; for we thinke that the whole nation (save a silliesilly few) have contented it self with the form of government, and worship prescribed in …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… better learned in that kingdome of darknesse; nor as he doth with some ignorant, silliesilly, blockish people amongst vs, vncapable of the knowledge of the Truth and power of …
With rule
… better learned in that kingdome of darknesse; nor as he doth with some ignorant, silliesilly, blockish people amongst vs, vncapable of the knowledge of the Truth and power of …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe cruell Tyrants, rather then Shepheards, that hauing no pittie nor compaſſion vpon thoſe ſilliesilly ſheepe, deſperately forſake their flockes, ouer whom the Lord had made them ouerſeers; and …
With rule
… thoſe cruell Tyrants, rather then Shepheards, that hauing no pittie nor compaſſion vpon thoſe ſilliesilly ſheepe, deſperately forſake their flockes, ouer whom the Lord had made them ouerſeers; and …
Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iewes, and their compariſon of the ſowre grape, with other the like conteſtations of ſilliesilly wormes with their Creator, that theſe (I ſay) are principally to bee vnderſtood in …
With rule
… Iewes, and their compariſon of the ſowre grape, with other the like conteſtations of ſilliesilly wormes with their Creator, that theſe (I ſay) are principally to bee vnderſtood in …
John Salkeld · A Treatise of Paradise · p. 352 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his name, which goes beyond the bare repeating of it. 2. Satan delights to see silliesilly people, being deluded, to abuse both this name, and all the names of God …
With rule
… his name, which goes beyond the bare repeating of it. 2. Satan delights to see silliesilly people, being deluded, to abuse both this name, and all the names of God …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… together with your ſtudious endeuours in the beſt authors, to be ſuch, that this ſilliesilly fooliſh ſophiſter with all his ſlaunders and lies ſhall neuer be able to remoue …
With rule
… together with your ſtudious endeuours in the beſt authors, to be ſuch, that this ſilliesilly fooliſh ſophiſter with all his ſlaunders and lies ſhall neuer be able to remoue …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy good will and pleasure. As if he should say, I would marueile these silliesilly soules should so profit more in heauenly wisedome, than the wise of the world …
With rule
… thy good will and pleasure. As if he should say, I would marueile these silliesilly soules should so profit more in heauenly wisedome, than the wise of the world …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heard them so curiously observed in any other then my selfe, they are such silliesilly things; as praying in the entrance of my sermons only & not in the end …
With rule
… heard them so curiously observed in any other then my selfe, they are such silliesilly things; as praying in the entrance of my sermons only & not in the end …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

5 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.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… so many noysome Beastes: that how should a good God bee author of them? SillieSilly man that thou art! The Poysons thou occupyest in Tryacles for thy health, euen …
With rule
… so many noysome Beastes: that how should a good God bee author of them? SillieSilly man that thou art! The Poysons thou occupyest in Tryacles for thy health, euen …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 A20547

Printed
… ſay, and ſtare too, to anger ſuch as admoniſh them of their vnlawfull othes. SillieSilly creatures and miſerable wretches, will they cut their owne throats to grieue others with …
With rule
… ſay, and ſtare too, to anger ſuch as admoniſh them of their vnlawfull othes. SillieSilly creatures and miſerable wretches, will they cut their owne throats to grieue others with …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Sermons A68672

Printed
… vp with the pride of nature, to driue into-him one word of it. SillieSilly ones, who haue no conceite of their naturall wiſdome, will ſwallow it vp but …
With rule
… vp with the pride of nature, to driue into-him one word of it. SillieSilly ones, who haue no conceite of their naturall wiſdome, will ſwallow it vp but …
Robert Rollock · Sermons · p. 111 · Open in the reader

A Satire of the Three Estates A72573

Printed
Speir at the Sowtar Geordie SillieSilly,
With rule
Speir at the Sowtar Geordie SillieSilly,
David Lindsay · A Satire of the Three Estates · p. 140 · Open in the reader

Scottish Proverbs B03446

Printed
SillieSilly bairns are eith to lear.
With rule
SillieSilly bairns are eith to lear.
David Fergusson · Scottish Proverbs · Open in the reader