Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4703 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fyndfind

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

Puritas changed it: 535 times in 121 works
Consistency: 99.4% (535 of 538)
Reach if approved: ~565 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: find
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 538 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (535 changes in 121 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 535)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Now fyndfind I true, y^e saiyng, which Dauid sayd
With rule
Now fyndfind I true, y^e saiyng, which Dauid sayd
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
Would …od that all men woulde remember this, thā …hould y^• poore people fyndfind more gentlenesse at mennes ha…des, thā they do now a daies. But what …
With rule
Would …od that all men woulde remember this, thā …hould y^• poore people fyndfind more gentlenesse at mennes ha…des, thā they do now a daies. But what …
Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader
Printed
… could search y^e botome of theyr hart, which is wycked & inscrutable, they shulde there fyndfind such hepes lopes & donge hylles of synne, that they would be redye to dispayre …
With rule
… could search y^e botome of theyr hart, which is wycked & inscrutable, they shulde there fyndfind such hepes lopes & donge hylles of synne, that they would be redye to dispayre …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
Thou canneſt not fyndfind a better waye to eſcape, then to geue prayſe vnto the veritie, and chaunge …
With rule
Thou canneſt not fyndfind a better waye to eſcape, then to geue prayſe vnto the veritie, and chaunge …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… Queene mother, seeing novv all her foure sons after a sort to be kinges, fyndfind that delphick ansvver of her familiar spirites subtilly fulfilled: so as she may chalenge …
With rule
… Queene mother, seeing novv all her foure sons after a sort to be kinges, fyndfind that delphick ansvver of her familiar spirites subtilly fulfilled: so as she may chalenge …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
6 For so much therefore as I fyndfind thée betwéene both, and neyther of both, halfe colde, halfe hote, and neyther fully …
With rule
6 For so much therefore as I fyndfind thée betwéene both, and neyther of both, halfe colde, halfe hote, and neyther fully …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… prophet of God was troubled, and that not by a meane number, for I fyndfind him complain vniuersally and generally vpon the peoples iniquitie. For thus induceth he God …
With rule
… prophet of God was troubled, and that not by a meane number, for I fyndfind him complain vniuersally and generally vpon the peoples iniquitie. For thus induceth he God …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… hym vnoccupyed, he is euer in his …, he … at al tymes, ye shal neuer fyndfind hym out of the way: call for hym when you wyl, he is euer …
With rule
… hym vnoccupyed, he is euer in his …, he … at al tymes, ye shal neuer fyndfind hym out of the way: call for hym when you wyl, he is euer …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 13 · 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.

A Christian Plea A04540

Printed
… that age did read their prayers out of ſuch books, and ſo vvorship God? FyndFind vve not mention of their prayers divers times recorded? Mat. 14, 28, 30. Luk. 17, 5. Act. 1, 24, 25. and 4, 24 — 30. And …
With rule
… that age did read their prayers out of ſuch books, and ſo vvorship God? FyndFind vve not mention of their prayers divers times recorded? Mat. 14, 28, 30. Luk. 17, 5. Act. 1, 24, 25. and 4, 24 — 30. And …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 249 · Open in the reader

The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad A19656

Printed
FyndFind any faute, I it commyt
With rule
FyndFind any faute, I it commyt
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad · Open in the reader