Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52771 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ȝeye

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 1,058 times in 10 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,058 of 1,059)
Reach if approved: ~1,326 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,262 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: ʒe (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,058 changes in 10 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,058)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he can not abstaine from sinne so long as he is in this life, ȝeye the maist just & vpricht man fallis oftymes euery day; and the estait of a …
With rule
… he can not abstaine from sinne so long as he is in this life, ȝeye the maist just & vpricht man fallis oftymes euery day; and the estait of a …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
That gift but dout, ȝeye gaif to me
With rule
That gift but dout, ȝeye gaif to me
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
Quhy thole ȝeye thame, to ryn frome toun to toun
With rule
Quhy thole ȝeye thame, to ryn frome toun to toun
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader
Printed
Haist to dispens the best ȝeye may.
With rule
Haist to dispens the best ȝeye may.
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader
Printed
… and palpable; but Chriſt hes a humane body, and he is corporally preſent, as ȝeye ſay: therfore Chriſts bodie is viſible and palpable. I prieue my propoſition, be Chriſts …
With rule
… and palpable; but Chriſt hes a humane body, and he is corporally preſent, as ȝeye ſay: therfore Chriſts bodie is viſible and palpable. I prieue my propoſition, be Chriſts …
Robert Bruce · Sermons Upon the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… not the seales of the Spirituall blessings presented to ws, be sensible creatures. If ȝeye say the one sort is Holy and sacred and so is not the other …
With rule
… not the seales of the Spirituall blessings presented to ws, be sensible creatures. If ȝeye say the one sort is Holy and sacred and so is not the other …
David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
Becaus ȝeye endit ſa in vprichtnes.
With rule
Becaus ȝeye endit ſa in vprichtnes.
John Davidson · Brief Commendation of Uprightness · Open in the reader
Printed
Tak ȝeye the taine and I the t'other:
With rule
Tak ȝeye the taine and I the t'other:
David Lindsay · A Satire of the Three Estates · 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.