Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4605 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

alwaisalways

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

Puritas changed it: 165 times in 108 works
Consistency: 98.8% (165 of 167)
Reach if approved: ~175 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: always
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 167 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (165 changes in 108 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 165)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… put in the nominatiue caſe than in the genitiue, bicauſe that they haue ſubſtantiues alwaisalways as nominatiue caſes vnto the verb, either expreſſed or vnderſtood, with the which they …
With rule
… put in the nominatiue caſe than in the genitiue, bicauſe that they haue ſubſtantiues alwaisalways as nominatiue caſes vnto the verb, either expreſſed or vnderſtood, with the which they …
John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that our aduersaries were not able to match vs this way, hath the victorie alwaisalways fallen on the side of the greatest hoste? no, for the holie woord of …
With rule
… that our aduersaries were not able to match vs this way, hath the victorie alwaisalways fallen on the side of the greatest hoste? no, for the holie woord of …
John Udall · True Remedy Against Famine and Wars · Open in the reader
Printed
… so you wil also giue some prety, sharpe charge in your circuites, sessiōs, & assēblies (alwaisalways keping your cōsciēces to your selues (& if some of you also wil somtimes, step …
With rule
… so you wil also giue some prety, sharpe charge in your circuites, sessiōs, & assēblies (alwaisalways keping your cōsciēces to your selues (& if some of you also wil somtimes, step …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I can. But forsomuch as neither Tully nor any of the purest Latinists do alwaisalways obserue the same order, and therfore I take it that no certaine rules can …
With rule
… I can. But forsomuch as neither Tully nor any of the purest Latinists do alwaisalways obserue the same order, and therfore I take it that no certaine rules can …
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peaceable minde, which brings forth a conſtant boldnes of reioycing. For faith indeede hath alwaisalways theſe two effects ioyned with it, to wit boldneſſe, and reioycing: as we haue …
With rule
… peaceable minde, which brings forth a conſtant boldnes of reioycing. For faith indeede hath alwaisalways theſe two effects ioyned with it, to wit boldneſſe, and reioycing: as we haue …
John Calvin · Commentary on Hebrews · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or lende it you ſo long as it lykethe hym) but alſo teachinge other alwaisalways that this cūiured …ake is god. And yet ſo ſone as you put him …
With rule
… or lende it you ſo long as it lykethe hym) but alſo teachinge other alwaisalways that this cūiured …ake is god. And yet ſo ſone as you put him …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. lviii · Open in the reader
Printed
… had faith or not. If Christe founde true fayth in his hert, thā he alwaisalways sayde, thy fayth hath saued the. Seyng than y^e none can search the hert …
With rule
… had faith or not. If Christe founde true fayth in his hert, thā he alwaisalways sayde, thy fayth hath saued the. Seyng than y^e none can search the hert …
Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath bin caled for at the hands of the ciuil ſtate? Surely they haue alwaisalways hitherto preſētly betakē thēſelues, to impriſonments and bonds and would neuer ſuffer the truth …
With rule
… hath bin caled for at the hands of the ciuil ſtate? Surely they haue alwaisalways hitherto preſētly betakē thēſelues, to impriſonments and bonds and would neuer ſuffer the truth …
John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 55 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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