Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4979 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sayledsailed

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

Puritas changed it: 180 times in 100 works
Consistency: 93.7% (180 of 192)
Reach if approved: ~202 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sailed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 192 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (180 changes in 100 works, 93.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 180)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… others in the ſame daūger. That is probable, that many men at that tyme ſayledsailed on the ſea: for that one ſhyppe onely was not in the Sea, ſéeing …
With rule
… others in the ſame daūger. That is probable, that many men at that tyme ſayledsailed on the ſea: for that one ſhyppe onely was not in the Sea, ſéeing …
John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Castle of Naples, and with a small company got certaine Brigandines, wherein he sayledsailed to the Island Ischia, thirty miles from Naples: saying at his departure this verse …
With rule
… the Castle of Naples, and with a small company got certaine Brigandines, wherein he sayledsailed to the Island Ischia, thirty miles from Naples: saying at his departure this verse …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Spain, held 305. unde Pope Mercellius. It was decreed in the 38 Canon. That ſuch as ſayledsailed into ſtrange Countries, or if a Church be not near at hand, a Believer …
With rule
… Spain, held 305. unde Pope Mercellius. It was decreed in the 38 Canon. That ſuch as ſayledsailed into ſtrange Countries, or if a Church be not near at hand, a Believer …
Henry Danvers · Laying on of Hands · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… death of Godwin, his ſon Harold grew in great fauour with the king. He ſayledsailed into Flaunders, and in the courſe of his ſayling, he was driuen by force …
With rule
… death of Godwin, his ſon Harold grew in great fauour with the king. He ſayledsailed into Flaunders, and in the courſe of his ſayling, he was driuen by force …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſonges, trauayled to, but abode not wyth the Lotophagi, ſcaped vndrowned Silla: to conclude, ſayledsailed to hell, but retourned ſafe. What nede I mention Cicero? Who ioyned to him …
With rule
… ſonges, trauayled to, but abode not wyth the Lotophagi, ſcaped vndrowned Silla: to conclude, ſayledsailed to hell, but retourned ſafe. What nede I mention Cicero? Who ioyned to him …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… Publycanne wente home more iustifyed then the Pharise. By prayer the fayth of Peter sayledsailed not. By prayer the holy Ghoste was purchased for the Apostles and all the …
With rule
… Publycanne wente home more iustifyed then the Pharise. By prayer the fayth of Peter sayledsailed not. By prayer the holy Ghoste was purchased for the Apostles and all the …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… King Philip his sonne, and surrendred the Imperiall crowne vnto the Electors of Germany, & sayledsailed vnto Spaine, where hee entered into an house of religion, and gaue himselfe to …
With rule
… King Philip his sonne, and surrendred the Imperiall crowne vnto the Electors of Germany, & sayledsailed vnto Spaine, where hee entered into an house of religion, and gaue himselfe to …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of owne sinfull imaginations, & tyred with externall tentations. The happiest soule that euer hath sayledsailed ouer this Euripus, in the best ship, in the healthfullest body that euer was …
With rule
… of owne sinfull imaginations, & tyred with externall tentations. The happiest soule that euer hath sayledsailed ouer this Euripus, in the best ship, in the healthfullest body that euer was …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.