Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4564 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyarsliars

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

Puritas changed it: 1,507 times in 782 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,507 of 1,510)
Reach if approved: ~1,589 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: liars
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,512 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,507 changes in 782 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,507)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath sayd in thys matter, which more experimentlye knewe yt, and lete the forē lyarsliars go, whiche beynge farre of cared the lesse to lye. In dede thys ys …
With rule
… hath sayd in thys matter, which more experimentlye knewe yt, and lete the forē lyarsliars go, whiche beynge farre of cared the lesse to lye. In dede thys ys …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… name of contumelye and reprofe, of vanyte and falſhede. All menne (ſayth Dauid) are lyarsliars. The chyldren of menne are deceytfull. All ys but vanyte (ſayth Salomon) all ys …
With rule
… name of contumelye and reprofe, of vanyte and falſhede. All menne (ſayth Dauid) are lyarsliars. The chyldren of menne are deceytfull. All ys but vanyte (ſayth Salomon) all ys …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tell? Be well aduiſed before ye aunſwer, leſt by neglecting yourſelf, ye be proued lyarsliars. Will ye ſaye that y^e apoſtles vſed your Canon▪ ſo ye haue affirmed in …
With rule
… tell? Be well aduiſed before ye aunſwer, leſt by neglecting yourſelf, ye be proued lyarsliars. Will ye ſaye that y^e apoſtles vſed your Canon▪ ſo ye haue affirmed in …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
Printed
… scripture. For they haue declared thē selues not in few thinges to be men & lyarsliars, therfore are they to be beleued no further, than the worde of God mayntayneth …
With rule
… scripture. For they haue declared thē selues not in few thinges to be men & lyarsliars, therfore are they to be beleued no further, than the worde of God mayntayneth …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… might be brought for proofe hereof: what meane you then to bring ſuch notorious lyarsliars for your witneſſes? yea even in his ſtory of this Pope in particular, he …
With rule
… might be brought for proofe hereof: what meane you then to bring ſuch notorious lyarsliars for your witneſſes? yea even in his ſtory of this Pope in particular, he …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which by no means can fall vpon God. And whereas a lying ſpirite, & mē lyarsliars by nature, do lie, al this is to be attributed to their own beginnings …
With rule
… which by no means can fall vpon God. And whereas a lying ſpirite, & mē lyarsliars by nature, do lie, al this is to be attributed to their own beginnings …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
72 Againſt ſlaundederes and lyarsliars.
With rule
72 Againſt ſlaundederes and lyarsliars.
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nowe darkeneſſe. No, ſaithe the Apoſtle Paule, let God be true, and al men lyarsliars. Can God be vniuſte? How ſhall he then iudge the worlde? Rom. 3. Agayne, God …
With rule
… nowe darkeneſſe. No, ſaithe the Apoſtle Paule, let God be true, and al men lyarsliars. Can God be vniuſte? How ſhall he then iudge the worlde? Rom. 3. Agayne, God …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Liar Confounded A91211

Printed
… to God; or more Diabolically impious and like to the very Devill himſelfe, then LYARSLIARS; and of all LyarsLiars thoſe eſpecially, who moſt maliciouſly forge, and then ſcandalouſly Regiſter …
With rule
… to God; or more Diabolically impious and like to the very Devill himſelfe, then LYARSLIARS; and of all LyarsLiars thoſe eſpecially, who moſt maliciouſly forge, and then ſcandalouſly Regiſter …
William Prynne · The Liar Confounded · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… read the Examinations of Sir Samuels witneſſes, to the ſhame of theſe unſufferable GRAND LYARSLIARS, will avow, that all the Charges againſt them are not only confirmed and made …
With rule
… read the Examinations of Sir Samuels witneſſes, to the ſhame of theſe unſufferable GRAND LYARSLIARS, will avow, that all the Charges againſt them are not only confirmed and made …
William Prynne · The Liar Confounded · p. 31 · Open in the reader