Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4707 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

germaniegermany

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

Puritas changed it: 935 times in 326 works
Consistency: 99.4% (935 of 940)
Reach if approved: ~988 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: germany
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 940 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (935 changes in 326 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 935)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
As for the Churches of GermanieGermany commonly called the Churches of the Lutheranes, they are to be reputed of vs …
With rule
As for the Churches of GermanieGermany commonly called the Churches of the Lutheranes, they are to be reputed of vs …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 496 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ar sa prophanit, that in my conscience, gif I had bene brocht vp in GermanieGermany or in ony vther countrie, quhair Christ is trewly preichit, and all thingis done …
With rule
… ar sa prophanit, that in my conscience, gif I had bene brocht vp in GermanieGermany or in ony vther countrie, quhair Christ is trewly preichit, and all thingis done …
David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Brandeburge, of the dukes of Brunswich, Luneburge, Megelburge, and of many other princes of GermanieGermany. This was a very great and wise man, but Cassanaeus in Cat. glor. …di …
With rule
… Brandeburge, of the dukes of Brunswich, Luneburge, Megelburge, and of many other princes of GermanieGermany. This was a very great and wise man, but Cassanaeus in Cat. glor. …di …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very reuerend learned Physitian. The cure was done by a lewde cosening knaue in GermanieGermany. A woman had bleare eies that were watery. The knaue lodging there, promised for …
With rule
… very reuerend learned Physitian. The cure was done by a lewde cosening knaue in GermanieGermany. A woman had bleare eies that were watery. The knaue lodging there, promised for …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kilianus being before a Scottishe Monke a bishop, and sent him with other into GermanieGermany, to winne the East part of Fraunce to y^e church of Rome. But this …
With rule
… Kilianus being before a Scottishe Monke a bishop, and sent him with other into GermanieGermany, to winne the East part of Fraunce to y^e church of Rome. But this …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… be the said Ebirhardus, & wer ratifyed and confirmed be the hole Bishoppes, & Senate of GermanieGermany: wherby it is euident what iudgement that age had of the Bishoppes of Rome …
With rule
… be the said Ebirhardus, & wer ratifyed and confirmed be the hole Bishoppes, & Senate of GermanieGermany: wherby it is euident what iudgement that age had of the Bishoppes of Rome …
John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
… be as a certain Naamā by whom God at this day giueth health to GermanieGermany, as in time paſt by him he gaue health to Syria. VVherefore euen the …
With rule
… be as a certain Naamā by whom God at this day giueth health to GermanieGermany, as in time paſt by him he gaue health to Syria. VVherefore euen the …
Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · Open in the reader
Printed
… day, many congregations profeſsing the trueth, yea many Countries imbracing Chriſt Ieſus, as namely, GermanieGermany, France, England, Scotland, Denmarke, with many other renowned in this reſpect. Wherefore the goſpel …
With rule
… day, many congregations profeſsing the trueth, yea many Countries imbracing Chriſt Ieſus, as namely, GermanieGermany, France, England, Scotland, Denmarke, with many other renowned in this reſpect. Wherefore the goſpel …
Peter Moffett · The Excellency of the Mystery of Christ Jesus · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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.

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

Printed
Bevvare hovv ye tell tithings of the Church of ENGLAND of FRANCE, or of GERMANIEGERMANY, or of other partes. Looke when thou ſpeakeſt of the proſperous eſtate of the …
With rule
Bevvare hovv ye tell tithings of the Church of ENGLAND of FRANCE, or of GERMANIEGERMANY, or of other partes. Looke when thou ſpeakeſt of the proſperous eſtate of the …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 349 · Open in the reader

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
… hee was aduaunced to manie honours, First, to be the Popes Legate in ENGLAND, GERMANIEGERMANY, and FRANCE, and afterwardes to bee Archbishop of Mentz. All his studies and trauels …
With rule
… hee was aduaunced to manie honours, First, to be the Popes Legate in ENGLAND, GERMANIEGERMANY, and FRANCE, and afterwardes to bee Archbishop of Mentz. All his studies and trauels …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 125 · Open in the reader