Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4573 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

playnplain

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

Puritas changed it: 280 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.2% (280 of 282)
Reach if approved: ~296 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 282 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (280 changes in 91 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 280)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… profited in y^e Goſpell is not ignorante but y^t thing is none other than playnplain ſacrilege & abhominatiō which the prieſtes do there. I praye you, may a man go …
With rule
… profited in y^e Goſpell is not ignorante but y^t thing is none other than playnplain ſacrilege & abhominatiō which the prieſtes do there. I praye you, may a man go …
John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, & callyng it the fruit of the vyne? These wordes of Christ be so playnplain, that if an Angel of heauē would tel vs the contrary, he ought not …
With rule
… it, & callyng it the fruit of the vyne? These wordes of Christ be so playnplain, that if an Angel of heauē would tel vs the contrary, he ought not …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the vntowarde and wicked generation for their vnbeleuers sake, yet will it be playnplain ynough to the faithfull beleuers instauntlye calling vpon him which hath the key of …
With rule
… from the vntowarde and wicked generation for their vnbeleuers sake, yet will it be playnplain ynough to the faithfull beleuers instauntlye calling vpon him which hath the key of …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… dare to bring near him. But he hates and forbids theſe, as it is playnplain in the text.
With rule
… dare to bring near him. But he hates and forbids theſe, as it is playnplain in the text.
Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, and the last not yet to haue had ben comen. Wherof it is playnplain, these vij. Kynges to haue had reygned one after another. But of the x …
With rule
… is, and the last not yet to haue had ben comen. Wherof it is playnplain, these vij. Kynges to haue had reygned one after another. But of the x …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
… writē againſt him for it. For in the controuerſie of iuſtificatiō, fol. 61. he in playnplain tearms with vs cōfeſſes, ſi formaliter & propriè loquamur, nec fide nec charitate noſtrâ iuſtificamur'ſed …
With rule
… writē againſt him for it. For in the controuerſie of iuſtificatiō, fol. 61. he in playnplain tearms with vs cōfeſſes, ſi formaliter & propriè loquamur, nec fide nec charitate noſtrâ iuſtificamur'ſed …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶But herke, Crysten reder, and I shal lernethe to knowe Crystis playnplain & t…we miracles… frō the sleighthy iugglinge of these crafty conuayers. Cryste wolde neuer …
With rule
¶But herke, Crysten reder, and I shal lernethe to knowe Crystis playnplain & t…we miracles… frō the sleighthy iugglinge of these crafty conuayers. Cryste wolde neuer …
William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when our Lord was put in graue. So the Lawes of this Kingdome be playnplain. But the ſtudie of the Word for the Hebrew Teſtament, and the Greeke Teſtament …
With rule
… when our Lord was put in graue. So the Lawes of this Kingdome be playnplain. But the ſtudie of the Word for the Hebrew Teſtament, and the Greeke Teſtament …
Hugh Broughton · An Exposition Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Certain Questions A16958

Printed
… held Leſhem the towne, by vvarre. & G…d of Leahs handmayd, was in a PlaynPlain, nere Ruben, bordered vpon the Enemie: that garriſons might warre ſtill with him. Sea …
With rule
… held Leſhem the towne, by vvarre. & G…d of Leahs handmayd, was in a PlaynPlain, nere Ruben, bordered vpon the Enemie: that garriſons might warre ſtill with him. Sea …
Hugh Broughton · Certain Questions · p. 28 · Open in the reader