Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5178 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sorriesorry

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

Puritas changed it: 264 times in 156 works
Consistency: 99.6% (264 of 265)
Reach if approved: ~278 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sorry
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 265 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (264 changes in 156 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 264)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Vſe. 3 BVt let it not ſuffice you to be ſorriesorry for your faults a little for the preſent, make your humiliation ſo thorow and …
With rule
Vſe. 3 BVt let it not ſuffice you to be ſorriesorry for your faults a little for the preſent, make your humiliation ſo thorow and …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 175 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this part was finished, I heard that M. Perkins was dead. I am sorriesorry that it commeth forth to late, to doe him anie good. Yet, his worke …
With rule
… of this part was finished, I heard that M. Perkins was dead. I am sorriesorry that it commeth forth to late, to doe him anie good. Yet, his worke …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Actions of God, have occaſioned theſe and the like phraſes, God repented, and was ſorriesorry in his heart.
With rule
… Actions of God, have occaſioned theſe and the like phraſes, God repented, and was ſorriesorry in his heart.
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 555 · Open in the reader
Printed
Eightly, We must pitie the soules especially of ignorant and wicked men, and be sorriesorry for them. I beheld the transgressours and was grieved (saith David Psal. 119.158.) because they …
With rule
Eightly, We must pitie the soules especially of ignorant and wicked men, and be sorriesorry for them. I beheld the transgressours and was grieved (saith David Psal. 119.158.) because they …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 750 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his heart? cannot we ſlight ouer our duties, and put God off with ſuch ſorriesorry ſeruice, as if any thing were good enough for him? haue we not had …
With rule
… his heart? cannot we ſlight ouer our duties, and put God off with ſuch ſorriesorry ſeruice, as if any thing were good enough for him? haue we not had …
Paul Baynes · A Caveat for Cold Christians · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forth in his holy waies,] they there seeme to confesse [that they are heartily sorriesorry for their misdoings, that the remembrance of their sinnes is grievous, the burthen of …
With rule
… forth in his holy waies,] they there seeme to confesse [that they are heartily sorriesorry for their misdoings, that the remembrance of their sinnes is grievous, the burthen of …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at every receiving of the Sacrament; that you doe earnestly repent, and are heartily sorriesorry for all your misdoings; that the remembrance of them is grievous unto you; the …
With rule
… at every receiving of the Sacrament; that you doe earnestly repent, and are heartily sorriesorry for all your misdoings; that the remembrance of them is grievous unto you; the …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 828 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be sober: & in a worde. If thou hast beene inclined to any sin, bee sorriesorry for it and forsake it: If thou hast neglected anye good worke: now begin …
With rule
… be sober: & in a worde. If thou hast beene inclined to any sin, bee sorriesorry for it and forsake it: If thou hast neglected anye good worke: now begin …
Henry Smith · The Layers Question · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.