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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52975 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ȝouryour

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

Puritas changed it
780 times in 8 works
Consistency
94.2% (780 of 828)
Reach if approved
~1,083 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,031 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
ʒour (48)
Taken into joins
2 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (780 changes in 8 works, 94.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 780)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Quhy ȝeid ȝe with ȝouryour bellie bair?
    With rule
    Quhy ȝeid ȝe with ȝouryour bellie bair?

    David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Bot ȝouryour desyris is ay for to lie,
    With rule
    Bot ȝouryour desyris is ay for to lie,

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ane of ȝou trye and examine ȝouryour ſaules, that is, try the eſtait of ȝouryour awin hart, and condition of ȝouryour awne conſcience. Look and beholde in quhat eſtaite …
    With rule
    … ane of ȝou trye and examine ȝouryour ſaules, that is, try the eſtait of ȝouryour awin hart, and condition of ȝouryour awne conſcience. Look and beholde in quhat eſtaite …

    Robert Bruce · Sermons Upon the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Muſe ȝo… to mank ȝouryour Meſſage, or hald bak
    With rule
    Muſe ȝo… to mank ȝouryour Meſſage, or hald bak

    John Davidson · Brief Commendation of Uprightness · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    I wil not gif for al ȝouryour play worth an ſowis fart,
    With rule
    I wil not gif for al ȝouryour play worth an ſowis fart,

    David Lindsay · A Satire of the Three Estates · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vnto men, the vnderſtanding of his Scripturs, that I could nocht be langer of ȝouryour opinione, without I wald haue mantenit, as ane ſhameles man, that thing quhilk had …
    With rule
    … vnto men, the vnderſtanding of his Scripturs, that I could nocht be langer of ȝouryour opinione, without I wald haue mantenit, as ane ſhameles man, that thing quhilk had …

    John Davidson · Answer to the Tractive by Master Kennedy · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Deuotelie ſall ȝouryour Dirige be dreſt.
    With rule
    Deuotelie ſall ȝouryour Dirige be dreſt.

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    ❧ FATHER said I) with ȝouryour Lycence
    With rule
    ❧ FATHER said I) with ȝouryour Lycence

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · 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.