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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4806 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ivieivy

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

Puritas changed it
179 times in 128 works
Consistency
89.9% (179 of 199)
Reach if approved
~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ivy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (179 changes in 128 works, 89.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 179)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Lyturgy? which is enmity, both to good Miniſters and Miniſtery: For as the IvieIvy, which winding it ſelf about the Vine, draws the ſap and ſpirit out of …
    With rule
    … the Lyturgy? which is enmity, both to good Miniſters and Miniſtery: For as the IvieIvy, which winding it ſelf about the Vine, draws the ſap and ſpirit out of …

    Richard Bernard · A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as an old Cuſtome, received by Tradition of their Fathers: which uſually ſticks (as IvieIvy to the tree) cloſer to carnall hearts, then any truth of Religion, or Inſtitution …
    With rule
    … as an old Cuſtome, received by Tradition of their Fathers: which uſually ſticks (as IvieIvy to the tree) cloſer to carnall hearts, then any truth of Religion, or Inſtitution …

    Daniel Cawdry · Diatribe Triplex · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Simmons, and are to be ſold by Joſeph Blaik-lock, at his Houſe in IvieIvy-lane. 1651.
    With rule
    … Simmons, and are to be ſold by Joſeph Blaik-lock, at his Houſe in IvieIvy-lane. 1651.

    Walter Cradock · Gospel Holiness · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    IvieIvy
    With rule
    IvieIvy

    Charles Hoole · A Little Vocabulary of English and Latin · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    LONDON, Printed by J. G. for R. ROYSTON, at the Angel in IvieIvy-lane. 1650.
    With rule
    LONDON, Printed by J. G. for R. ROYSTON, at the Angel in IvieIvy-lane. 1650.

    Henry Hammond · Of the Reasonableness of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſhall profit you nothing: For looke as evill weeds doe ſuffocate good corne, and IvieIvy killeth the heart of Oake: So hereſies and falſe worſhip will kill grace, if …
    With rule
    … ſhall profit you nothing: For looke as evill weeds doe ſuffocate good corne, and IvieIvy killeth the heart of Oake: So hereſies and falſe worſhip will kill grace, if …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the skinme of an Ethiopian, that cannot possibly bee washt off. As fast as IvieIvy to a wall (it is the similitude of Epiphanius) though a man may lop …
    With rule
    … the skinme of an Ethiopian, that cannot possibly bee washt off. As fast as IvieIvy to a wall (it is the similitude of Epiphanius) though a man may lop …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Nor ſtrength to raiſe the climbing IvieIvy-twine,
    With rule
    Nor ſtrength to raiſe the climbing IvieIvy-twine,

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Mask Presented A07555

  • Printed
    With ivieivy canopied, and interwove
    With rule
    With ivieivy canopied, and interwove

    John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 19 · Open in the reader

The Annals of the World A64619

  • Printed
    … dignity, market them with hot irons in the face, with the signe of an ivieivy leaf, because that was the badge of Bacchus: but they that would fall from …
    With rule
    … dignity, market them with hot irons in the face, with the signe of an ivieivy leaf, because that was the badge of Bacchus: but they that would fall from …

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 370 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivieivy. [2 Maccab. 6. 7.]
    With rule
    … of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivieivy. [2 Maccab. 6. 7.]

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 430 · Open in the reader