Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4812 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melodiemelody

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

Puritas changed it: 279 times in 177 works
Consistency: 96.2% (279 of 290)
Reach if approved: ~305 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: melody
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 290 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (279 changes in 177 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 279)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them, and they entertaine the light and heat of the Sunne with singing and melodiemelody: so let us, in our thoughts, entertaine Christs comming with joy and comfort, having …
With rule
… them, and they entertaine the light and heat of the Sunne with singing and melodiemelody: so let us, in our thoughts, entertaine Christs comming with joy and comfort, having …
Richard Sibbes · The Brides Longing for her Bridegrooms Second Coming · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cease frō singing the praises of God, but they celebrate y^e same with perpetuall melodiemelody. And truly the glory of god which is in all creatures, y^e verie dūbe …
With rule
… cease frō singing the praises of God, but they celebrate y^e same with perpetuall melodiemelody. And truly the glory of god which is in all creatures, y^e verie dūbe …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… had Barzillai, and hee can no more diſtinguiſh the voice of ſinging or any melodiemelody, if grace be in the heart, notwithſtanding all theſe decayes in Nature, he flouriſheth …
With rule
… had Barzillai, and hee can no more diſtinguiſh the voice of ſinging or any melodiemelody, if grace be in the heart, notwithſtanding all theſe decayes in Nature, he flouriſheth …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Comediens, in their comedies, and stage plaies: To hear the singing and natural melodiemelody of the sweet singing birds firdoning their notes after their kinde, and on divers …
With rule
… of Comediens, in their comedies, and stage plaies: To hear the singing and natural melodiemelody of the sweet singing birds firdoning their notes after their kinde, and on divers …
Alexander Hume · The Felicity of the Life to Come · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs learne to know them what they meane: They are Honie in the mouth, melodiemelody in the eare, a Iubile in the heart. They ſhould bee as ſweete to …
With rule
… vs learne to know them what they meane: They are Honie in the mouth, melodiemelody in the eare, a Iubile in the heart. They ſhould bee as ſweete to …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… continuallie: heere is hatred, there is loue: heere paine, there pleasure: heere mourning, there melodiemelody: heere corruption, there immortalitie: here time, there aeternitie: heere miserie, there felicitie: and finallie …
With rule
… continuallie: heere is hatred, there is loue: heere paine, there pleasure: heere mourning, there melodiemelody: heere corruption, there immortalitie: here time, there aeternitie: heere miserie, there felicitie: and finallie …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prouidence, at the length vntunable, that others might not be intiſed with the ſeeming melodiemelody thereof, to the vnskillfull eare.
With rule
… prouidence, at the length vntunable, that others might not be intiſed with the ſeeming melodiemelody thereof, to the vnskillfull eare.
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the mouth ſingeth, man hath muſicke; but when the heart ſings, we make God melodiemelody: that is the beſt Organ, tune that, and all is well; God heares not …
With rule
… the mouth ſingeth, man hath muſicke; but when the heart ſings, we make God melodiemelody: that is the beſt Organ, tune that, and all is well; God heares not …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford A08356

Printed
Make MelodieMelody in your hearts. 102
With rule
Make MelodieMelody in your hearts. 102
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · Open in the reader

A Strange Vineyard in Palestine A10926

Printed
… of Poeſie and verſifying: ſo doth this for the authoritie and lawfulneſſe of Voice-MelodieMelody and Singing. Let the point be this:
With rule
… of Poeſie and verſifying: ſo doth this for the authoritie and lawfulneſſe of Voice-MelodieMelody and Singing. Let the point be this:
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 26 · Open in the reader

The Wild Vine A10928

Printed
… of Poeſie and verſifying: ſo doth this for the authoritie and lawfulneſſe of Voice-MelodieMelody and Singing. Let the point be this:
With rule
… of Poeſie and verſifying: ſo doth this for the authoritie and lawfulneſſe of Voice-MelodieMelody and Singing. Let the point be this:
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 26 · Open in the reader

A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven A14380

Printed
Making a most harmonious MelodieMelody,
With rule
Making a most harmonious MelodieMelody,
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
In that rare Consort of Mel-MelodieMelody,
With rule
In that rare Consort of Mel-MelodieMelody,
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader

Notes on the Book of Psalms A26458

Printed
… and voice, in Psalms solemnly sung, and Quire-like with all the Art and MelodieMelody, that musical instruments added thereunto can make, and at your own houses as well …
With rule
… and voice, in Psalms solemnly sung, and Quire-like with all the Art and MelodieMelody, that musical instruments added thereunto can make, and at your own houses as well …
George Abbot · Notes on the Book of Psalms · p. 491 · Open in the reader