Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5258 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ayrair

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

Puritas changed it: 583 times in 224 works
Consistency: 100% (583 of 583)
Reach if approved: ~613 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: air
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 583 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (583 changes in 224 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 583)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
above the heavens] Above the lower region of the ayrair.
With rule
above the heavens] Above the lower region of the ayrair.
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… part of that firſt matter, water, and another fire, and another earth, and another ayrair, he might have made that part fire, which was water, but it pleaſed the …
With rule
… part of that firſt matter, water, and another fire, and another earth, and another ayrair, he might have made that part fire, which was water, but it pleaſed the …
Edward Elton · The Great Mystery of Godliness Opened · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they should bee knowne for …pyes, make bares, pragmaticall incendiaries, poysoners of the very ayrair, where they breath, and most artificially palliated Traytors, and enginers of all mischiefe) but …
With rule
… they should bee knowne for …pyes, make bares, pragmaticall incendiaries, poysoners of the very ayrair, where they breath, and most artificially palliated Traytors, and enginers of all mischiefe) but …
Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this) and yet the Sun is not thereby changed in it self, but the ayrair onely is changed. In this conjunction, when the flesh or humane nature is said …
With rule
… this) and yet the Sun is not thereby changed in it self, but the ayrair onely is changed. In this conjunction, when the flesh or humane nature is said …
William Ames · The Substance of Christian Religion · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Beaux-Eſprits, The Men of AyrAir, and Wit, are pleas'd with Meeting the Sacred, and Awful Myſteries of Chriſtian Religion …
With rule
The Beaux-Eſprits, The Men of AyrAir, and Wit, are pleas'd with Meeting the Sacred, and Awful Myſteries of Chriſtian Religion …
Thomas Beverley · Christianity the Great Mystery · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuffered not: As if you ſhoot off a Cannon in the bright ayrair, the ayrair ſuffers, but the light of it ſuffers not: Actions and paſſions belong to perſons …
With rule
… ſuffered not: As if you ſhoot off a Cannon in the bright ayrair, the ayrair ſuffers, but the light of it ſuffers not: Actions and paſſions belong to perſons …
Thomas Brooks · A Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… towards their brethren which hath cauſed ſo great diviſion, to the ſweetneſſe of the, ayrair in a fair ſun-ſhine morning, oh how does it delight the traveller when …
With rule
… towards their brethren which hath cauſed ſo great diviſion, to the ſweetneſſe of the, ayrair in a fair ſun-ſhine morning, oh how does it delight the traveller when …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and in some places fire fell to the Earth, and flew up into the ayrair again: This Cruciger saw, as he lay in his bed in the night, and …
With rule
… and in some places fire fell to the Earth, and flew up into the ayrair again: This Cruciger saw, as he lay in his bed in the night, and …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 320 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.