Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5162 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saylingsailing

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

Puritas changed it: 274 times in 181 works
Consistency: 91.3% (274 of 300)
Reach if approved: ~315 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sailing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 300 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (274 changes in 181 works, 91.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 274)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bread: wherebyſuddenly he had full force and vigour; and ſhortly after, by a ſhip ſaylingsailing by, he was reſcued: Fitz-Simon, qui ſupra, Lib. 2. part. 6. page 402.
With rule
… bread: wherebyſuddenly he had full force and vigour; and ſhortly after, by a ſhip ſaylingsailing by, he was reſcued: Fitz-Simon, qui ſupra, Lib. 2. part. 6. page 402.
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our life is full of troubles, tossed with continual tempests, as they which are saylingsailing on the sea, and we are caried away euery moment with the blasts of …
With rule
… our life is full of troubles, tossed with continual tempests, as they which are saylingsailing on the sea, and we are caried away euery moment with the blasts of …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and partly a Preacher: and though he had much learning, yet the vse of saylingsailing was not then found out: and therefore in all reason this Arke would be …
With rule
… and partly a Preacher: and though he had much learning, yet the vse of saylingsailing was not then found out: and therefore in all reason this Arke would be …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeemed a Law; therefore ſaid Ierome truely; Coegit non verbo ſed exemplo. As in ſaylingsailing, ſaith Agapetus, the error of an ordinary ſhip-man brings little detriment to the …
With rule
… ſeemed a Law; therefore ſaid Ierome truely; Coegit non verbo ſed exemplo. As in ſaylingsailing, ſaith Agapetus, the error of an ordinary ſhip-man brings little detriment to the …
William Sclater · Sermon · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnto me] What were thoſe? Euen all thoſe things which befell him in his ſaylingsailing towards Rome, at his firſt going thither from Ieruſalem, but eſpecially his bands in …
With rule
… vnto me] What were thoſe? Euen all thoſe things which befell him in his ſaylingsailing towards Rome, at his firſt going thither from Ieruſalem, but eſpecially his bands in …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
AFter our long saylingsailing and trauell in the deep & profound Mysteries of Christian Religion and Faith, me thinkes …
With rule
AFter our long saylingsailing and trauell in the deep & profound Mysteries of Christian Religion and Faith, me thinkes …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but blaſphemouſly and horribly abuſed, to be a mairmaide, to amaſe and bewitche men, ſaylingsailing in the ſeas of this life, to be enamored on her.
With rule
… but blaſphemouſly and horribly abuſed, to be a mairmaide, to amaſe and bewitche men, ſaylingsailing in the ſeas of this life, to be enamored on her.
John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… leape ſo high, as they will ſkippe ouer the hulls and bodies of Shippes ſaylingsailing in the ſame: But ſoone after that will follow a great tempeſt, wherein their …
With rule
… leape ſo high, as they will ſkippe ouer the hulls and bodies of Shippes ſaylingsailing in the ſame: But ſoone after that will follow a great tempeſt, wherein their …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

9 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.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
What remayneth yet further? The SaylingSailing of Salomons Shippes; which lasted thrée yeeres; and that séemeth vnto them incredible. And …
With rule
What remayneth yet further? The SaylingSailing of Salomons Shippes; which lasted thrée yeeres; and that séemeth vnto them incredible. And …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 471 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… Indian-Admirall, that deserveth the top-saile indeede, by aspiring to the top that SaylingSailing could aime at, in discouering an other World. Let Spaniards, French, English, and Dutch …
With rule
… Indian-Admirall, that deserveth the top-saile indeede, by aspiring to the top that SaylingSailing could aime at, in discouering an other World. Let Spaniards, French, English, and Dutch …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 612 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… the English Navy a hundred and forty Ships, nimble and serviceable for Fighting or SaylingSailing, yet only Fifteen of them bore the stroke of the Battell. And now againe …
With rule
… the English Navy a hundred and forty Ships, nimble and serviceable for Fighting or SaylingSailing, yet only Fifteen of them bore the stroke of the Battell. And now againe …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the most missing, nor so much as a Ship, but Cocks little Vessell) and SaylingSailing about all Brittaine by Scotland, the Orkeneys and Ireland, they returned into Spain with …
With rule
… the most missing, nor so much as a Ship, but Cocks little Vessell) and SaylingSailing about all Brittaine by Scotland, the Orkeneys and Ireland, they returned into Spain with …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 81 · Open in the reader

The Holy State A40674

Printed
SaylingSailing the South of Brasile, he afterwards passed the Magellan straits, and then entred Mare …
With rule
SaylingSailing the South of Brasile, he afterwards passed the Magellan straits, and then entred Mare …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 136 · Open in the reader

Old Jacobs Account Cast Up and Owned A45689

Printed
… motions of a Weavers Shuttle, Job 7.6. to the riding of a Poſt, to the SaylingSailing of a Ship, to the flying of an Eagle when ſhe haſteth to the …
With rule
… motions of a Weavers Shuttle, Job 7.6. to the riding of a Poſt, to the SaylingSailing of a Ship, to the flying of an Eagle when ſhe haſteth to the …
Thomas Harrison · Old Jacobs Account Cast Up and Owned · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Human Industry A55564

Printed
foreign: Or the Invention of Shipping and SaylingSailing: Also of the Mariners Compass. 144
With rule
foreign: Or the Invention of Shipping and SaylingSailing: Also of the Mariners Compass. 144
Thomas Powell · Human Industry · Open in the reader
Printed
SAylingSailing was an Invention no less usefull than bold; the Sea is a rough and …
With rule
SAylingSailing was an Invention no less usefull than bold; the Sea is a rough and …
Thomas Powell · Human Industry · p. 144 · Open in the reader

Influences of the Life of Grace A92141

Printed
… ſhot, and a fools ſacrifice is ſoon offered. Some receive the word foreign ſuddenly, Mark 4. 16. 1. SaylingSailing is more ſafely delay'd in the time of an extreme ſtorm, and ſowing when …
With rule
… ſhot, and a fools ſacrifice is ſoon offered. Some receive the word foreign ſuddenly, Mark 4. 16. 1. SaylingSailing is more ſafely delay'd in the time of an extreme ſtorm, and ſowing when …
Samuel Rutherford · Influences of the Life of Grace · p. 70 · Open in the reader