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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5500 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

siciliesicily

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

Puritas changed it
199 times in 74 works
Consistency
100% (199 of 199)
Reach if approved
~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sicily
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (199 changes in 74 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 199)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … mistaken by the way in taking Diotarus King of Galatia, for a King of SicilieSicily, fol. 10.) gives us some other in their stead, which he thinks unanswerable.
    With rule
    … mistaken by the way in taking Diotarus King of Galatia, for a King of SicilieSicily, fol. 10.) gives us some other in their stead, which he thinks unanswerable.

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … all his Titles, stiling him the Emperour of Germanie, King of Castile, Arragon, Naples, SicilieSicily, &c. Francis commanded his Herauld to call him so often King of France, as …
    With rule
    … all his Titles, stiling him the Emperour of Germanie, King of Castile, Arragon, Naples, SicilieSicily, &c. Francis commanded his Herauld to call him so often King of France, as …

    Edward Leigh · Treatise of the Divine Promises · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … at Constantinople, the Senate successively elected Olibrius and Glizerius Emperours of Rome, Italy, and SicilieSicily; yea, the very finall division of this great Empire into that of the East …
    With rule
    … at Constantinople, the Senate successively elected Olibrius and Glizerius Emperours of Rome, Italy, and SicilieSicily; yea, the very finall division of this great Empire into that of the East …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … sent Belisarius with his victorious Army against him, who by the way landing in SicilieSicily, tooke in Catania, Syracuse, and many other townes, and Cities, and after a while …
    With rule
    … sent Belisarius with his victorious Army against him, who by the way landing in SicilieSicily, tooke in Catania, Syracuse, and many other townes, and Cities, and after a while …

    Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Part 2 · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … So that one country ſeemeth as it vvere the granary of the vvorld. So SicilieSicily vvas called the granary of the Romane ſtate. Another the celler of the vvorld …
    With rule
    … So that one country ſeemeth as it vvere the granary of the vvorld. So SicilieSicily vvas called the granary of the Romane ſtate. Another the celler of the vvorld …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … serued not. Belike, vpon experience of some harme ensuing: as a husband man (in SicilieSicily) hauing rid stones out of his ground, was troubled so with myre, that he …
    With rule
    … serued not. Belike, vpon experience of some harme ensuing: as a husband man (in SicilieSicily) hauing rid stones out of his ground, was troubled so with myre, that he …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 661 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … olde worke in Greek and Latin titled, Faſtis Siculis, found in a Librarie of SicilieSicily printed by Comelin at Heydelberge, bringeth Brutus to Olympiad 85. the firſt yere, and ſo …
    With rule
    … olde worke in Greek and Latin titled, Faſtis Siculis, found in a Librarie of SicilieSicily printed by Comelin at Heydelberge, bringeth Brutus to Olympiad 85. the firſt yere, and ſo …

    Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … destroy Manfred Sonne to the Emperour Fredericke, now in possession of the kingdome of SicilieSicily, and Apulia. And this man likewise hath great gifts bestowed upon him, besides a …
    With rule
    … destroy Manfred Sonne to the Emperour Fredericke, now in possession of the kingdome of SicilieSicily, and Apulia. And this man likewise hath great gifts bestowed upon him, besides a …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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