Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4759 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tygerstigers

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

Puritas changed it: 371 times in 279 works
Consistency: 93.2% (371 of 398)
Reach if approved: ~418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tigers
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 398 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (371 changes in 279 works, 93.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… preach: and another not inhabited, where liued all kinds of wild beasts, as Lions, TygersTigers, Beares, &c. Christ made choise of that which was without the societie of men …
With rule
… preach: and another not inhabited, where liued all kinds of wild beasts, as Lions, TygersTigers, Beares, &c. Christ made choise of that which was without the societie of men …
William Perkins · Satans Sophistry Answered · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without all naturall affection, as if they were borne of Wolues, or nouriſhed of TygersTigers) ſeeke to cut the throate of the Church, adde to their afflictions, & make their …
With rule
… without all naturall affection, as if they were borne of Wolues, or nouriſhed of TygersTigers) ſeeke to cut the throate of the Church, adde to their afflictions, & make their …
Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 503 · Open in the reader
Printed
… exercise, yea the soile and luster of Faith. Man gloryes when he can tame TygersTigers and Lyons, thinks himselfe a stately king when hee can make an Elephant bow …
With rule
… exercise, yea the soile and luster of Faith. Man gloryes when he can tame TygersTigers and Lyons, thinks himselfe a stately king when hee can make an Elephant bow …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who is called a roaring Lion; and the wicked, who are termed Dogs, Wolves, TygersTigers, &c. But secondly, they are patient in suffering of injuries, that they might imitate …
With rule
… who is called a roaring Lion; and the wicked, who are termed Dogs, Wolves, TygersTigers, &c. But secondly, they are patient in suffering of injuries, that they might imitate …
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
LONDON. Printed for Iohn Hardie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the TygersTigers head. 1594.
With rule
LONDON. Printed for Iohn Hardie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the TygersTigers head. 1594.
William Burton · Conclusions of Peace · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prayers or Affections, our workes, and our perſons. But as wee ſay, that the TygersTigers enter into rage, vpon the ſent of any Aromaticke druggs; ſo in like manner …
With rule
… Prayers or Affections, our workes, and our perſons. But as wee ſay, that the TygersTigers enter into rage, vpon the ſent of any Aromaticke druggs; ſo in like manner …
Peter du Moulin Jr · A Preparation to Suffer for the Gospel · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… London by Thomas Orwin, for Tobie Cooke: and are to be ſolde at the TygersTigers head, in Pauls Churchyard. 1591
With rule
… London by Thomas Orwin, for Tobie Cooke: and are to be ſolde at the TygersTigers head, in Pauls Churchyard. 1591
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · Open in the reader
Printed
You see the Beastes they hunt: Not Foxes, not Wolues nor Boares, Bulles, nor TygersTigers. It is a certaine obseruation; no Beast hunts the owne kind to deuoure it …
With rule
You see the Beastes they hunt: Not Foxes, not Wolues nor Boares, Bulles, nor TygersTigers. It is a certaine obseruation; no Beast hunts the owne kind to deuoure it …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 71 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 23 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs A09998

Printed
… PRINTED BY IOSEPH BARNES, AND ARE TO BE SOVLD IN PAƲLS CHƲRCHYARD AT THE TYGERSTIGERS HEAD, 1587.
With rule
… PRINTED BY IOSEPH BARNES, AND ARE TO BE SOVLD IN PAƲLS CHƲRCHYARD AT THE TYGERSTIGERS HEAD, 1587.
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · Open in the reader

Christs Victory Over the Dragon A13533

Printed
1. What place had the dragon in the Church, when those fierce Tyrants and tygerstigers, those imperiall dragons, Nero, Domitian, Dioclesian, Trajan, and the other who shed a sea …
With rule
1. What place had the dragon in the Church, when those fierce Tyrants and tygerstigers, those imperiall dragons, Nero, Domitian, Dioclesian, Trajan, and the other who shed a sea …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 388 · Open in the reader

Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace A30587

Printed
… many come ſhort of the lives of men: they rather walk as doggs, as tygerstigers, as wolves. Gal. 5. 20. The fruits of the fleſh are hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, ſtrife …
With rule
… many come ſhort of the lives of men: they rather walk as doggs, as tygerstigers, as wolves. Gal. 5. 20. The fruits of the fleſh are hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, ſtrife …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace · p. 104 · Open in the reader

A General Martyrology A33309

Printed
… yet desirous to bring forth her fruit, fled into a corn-loft, whither these tygerstigers persuing her, gave her another stob into the belly, and so cast her out …
With rule
… yet desirous to bring forth her fruit, fled into a corn-loft, whither these tygerstigers persuing her, gave her another stob into the belly, and so cast her out …
Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 346 · Open in the reader