Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4757 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wrytingswritings

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

Puritas changed it: 154 times in 60 works
Consistency: 96.8% (154 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: writings
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (154 changes in 60 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 154)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… due to Chriſt him-ſelfe: for ſo ſay their canonized Saincts, in their authorized wrytingswritings, Sainct Aquinas, 3. parte. q. 25. and Sainct Bonaventure.
With rule
… due to Chriſt him-ſelfe: for ſo ſay their canonized Saincts, in their authorized wrytingswritings, Sainct Aquinas, 3. parte. q. 25. and Sainct Bonaventure.
William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
… time and ageinst so many iniuries of time. And séeing they be the only wrytingswritings which only he hath preserued from the creation of the world vnto our dayes …
With rule
… time and ageinst so many iniuries of time. And séeing they be the only wrytingswritings which only he hath preserued from the creation of the world vnto our dayes …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 419 · Open in the reader
Printed
… appeares to be that before this tyme there raiſe vp deceiuers that ſtole in wrytingswritings vnder the name of Paul, as appeares in the 2. chap. 2. verſe, be not deceiued …
With rule
… appeares to be that before this tyme there raiſe vp deceiuers that ſtole in wrytingswritings vnder the name of Paul, as appeares in the 2. chap. 2. verſe, be not deceiued …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Howe can you reporte trueth of vs when your religion forbiddeth to reade our wrytingswritings, vnlesse it bee to reprooue them: yee knowe your owne tearmes best. Yee take …
With rule
… Howe can you reporte trueth of vs when your religion forbiddeth to reade our wrytingswritings, vnlesse it bee to reprooue them: yee knowe your owne tearmes best. Yee take …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader
Printed
… and let the things that Saint Paule hath written ſerue vs, and likewyſe the wrytingswritings of Iohn and of Iames, and of the reſt of the Apoſtles: ſo they …
With rule
… and let the things that Saint Paule hath written ſerue vs, and likewyſe the wrytingswritings of Iohn and of Iames, and of the reſt of the Apoſtles: ſo they …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but when their works bée thorowly reade, and the ſcope an purpoſe of their wrytingswritings, thorowly weyghed and conſidered▪ they are found to be of a iudgment contrary to …
With rule
… but when their works bée thorowly reade, and the ſcope an purpoſe of their wrytingswritings, thorowly weyghed and conſidered▪ they are found to be of a iudgment contrary to …
Robert Crowley · Friar John Francis of France · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Scriptures of the Old Testament: which CHRIST comprehendeth only in Moses and the Prophets wrytingswritings, Luke 24. 27. of whom Malachi was the last.
With rule
… Scriptures of the Old Testament: which CHRIST comprehendeth only in Moses and the Prophets wrytingswritings, Luke 24. 27. of whom Malachi was the last.
William Guild · The Old Roman Catholic · Open in the reader
Printed
… vntrue, but verye vngodlye also is the saying of some, who affirme that the wrytingswritings of the Prophets containe nothing in them, but certaine olde Sermons whereof in our …
With rule
… vntrue, but verye vngodlye also is the saying of some, who affirme that the wrytingswritings of the Prophets containe nothing in them, but certaine olde Sermons whereof in our …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Isaiah 9 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
WrytingsWritings. 636
With rule
WrytingsWritings. 636
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · Open in the reader