Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5348 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

etymologieetymology

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

Puritas changed it: 305 times in 161 works
Consistency: 99.6% (305 of 306)
Reach if approved: ~322 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: etymology
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 306 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (305 changes in 161 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 305)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to so much reason as to tell the signification of words from the bare EtymologieEtymology, contrary to Customs interpretation, the world will but laugh at him: For how well …
With rule
… to so much reason as to tell the signification of words from the bare EtymologieEtymology, contrary to Customs interpretation, the world will but laugh at him: For how well …
Richard Baxter · Right to Sacraments · p. 426 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect, Conferences, if they be aduisedly vndertaken, and discreetly managed, according to their Latine EtymologieEtymology, alwaies conferre and conduce to some good end; to speake nothing of the Conference …
With rule
… respect, Conferences, if they be aduisedly vndertaken, and discreetly managed, according to their Latine EtymologieEtymology, alwaies conferre and conduce to some good end; to speake nothing of the Conference …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… condition foreign, a trumpet, or a ſounding Cymbal. Phavorinus in the word foreign, giveth a pretty EtymologieEtymology of it, foreign, when it moueth, it ſingeth, of ſoundeth …ome other ſignifications foreign hath in …
With rule
… condition foreign, a trumpet, or a ſounding Cymbal. Phavorinus in the word foreign, giveth a pretty EtymologieEtymology of it, foreign, when it moueth, it ſingeth, of ſoundeth …ome other ſignifications foreign hath in …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very pregnant to this purpose, which maye serve as a Commentarie on the former EtymologieEtymology, or definition of a Quire.
With rule
… very pregnant to this purpose, which maye serve as a Commentarie on the former EtymologieEtymology, or definition of a Quire.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how y^e our rebellious fleſh ſtādeth in need of theſe bridles, euen wéekly. The etymologieetymology of the Gréeke word foreign, which ſignifieth cleane or chaſt, may teach vs thus much …
With rule
… how y^e our rebellious fleſh ſtādeth in need of theſe bridles, euen wéekly. The etymologieetymology of the Gréeke word foreign, which ſignifieth cleane or chaſt, may teach vs thus much …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 600 · Open in the reader
Printed
… twiſe further then they neede: The Argument calleth for no ſuch matter; and, that EtymologieEtymology ſhould firſt be admitted, which hath beſt agreement in the Letters, when nothing for …
With rule
… twiſe further then they neede: The Argument calleth for no ſuch matter; and, that EtymologieEtymology ſhould firſt be admitted, which hath beſt agreement in the Letters, when nothing for …
Hugh Broughton · Observations Upon the First Ten Fathers · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but is appoynted onely for the time they be children, as appeareth by the EtymologieEtymology or meaning of the word▪ moreouer this belongeth to the teaching of a chylde …
With rule
… but is appoynted onely for the time they be children, as appeareth by the EtymologieEtymology or meaning of the word▪ moreouer this belongeth to the teaching of a chylde …
John Calvin · Commentary on Galatians · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Name priest is odious, as D. Fulke truely noteth; because they knowe not the EtymologieEtymology of it. For if they knew that the English word Priest, as also the …
With rule
… Name priest is odious, as D. Fulke truely noteth; because they knowe not the EtymologieEtymology of it. For if they knew that the English word Priest, as also the …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 71 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Elements of Logic A69248

Printed
ETymologieEtymology is the derivation of a word.
With rule
ETymologieEtymology is the derivation of a word.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Elements of Logic · p. 69 · Open in the reader