Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5597 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tygertiger

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

Puritas changed it: 155 times in 127 works
Consistency: 96.2% (155 of 161)
Reach if approved: ~169 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tiger
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 161 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 127 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… great; yet is he killed: The Lion is strong; yet is hee killed: The TygerTiger is swift; yet is he killed: Beware of many ioyned, if single ones you …
With rule
… great; yet is he killed: The Lion is strong; yet is hee killed: The TygerTiger is swift; yet is he killed: Beware of many ioyned, if single ones you …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at home: but now waxen strong, send them out into the common wealth. The TygerTiger when she perceiueth that her whelps are stolen awaie, when shee, being verie swift …
With rule
… at home: but now waxen strong, send them out into the common wealth. The TygerTiger when she perceiueth that her whelps are stolen awaie, when shee, being verie swift …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… boyling and raging cannot but breake out with ſuch eagrenes, that ſooner may the TygerTiger be tamed, then this miſchieuous foreign and foreign conſumer, and deſtroyer of men, be ſtopped from …
With rule
… boyling and raging cannot but breake out with ſuch eagrenes, that ſooner may the TygerTiger be tamed, then this miſchieuous foreign and foreign conſumer, and deſtroyer of men, be ſtopped from …
John Carpenter · Remember Lots Wife · Open in the reader
Printed
… to make us think of the Lamb of God, as if he were a TygerTiger or devourer!
With rule
… to make us think of the Lamb of God, as if he were a TygerTiger or devourer!
Richard Baxter · The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt ſavage beaſts agree well enough with one another, one Wolf with another, one TygerTiger with another, yet one man is a Wolf and a Devil to another; When …
With rule
… moſt ſavage beaſts agree well enough with one another, one Wolf with another, one TygerTiger with another, yet one man is a Wolf and a Devil to another; When …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… living creatures. The Lord, who hath made the Elephant, the Lion, the Bear, the TygerTiger, can quickly put a ſtop to the power and rage of any of them …
With rule
… living creatures. The Lord, who hath made the Elephant, the Lion, the Bear, the TygerTiger, can quickly put a ſtop to the power and rage of any of them …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 38-42 · p. 638 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inſomuch that they groaned under it, and cryed out unto God. Pharaoh played the TygerTiger-like Tyrant over them, and made them weary of their lives: ſo do the …
With rule
… inſomuch that they groaned under it, and cryed out unto God. Pharaoh played the TygerTiger-like Tyrant over them, and made them weary of their lives: ſo do the …
William Fenner · A Treatise of the Affections · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it well to pray in wrath? Did men know what a Wolfe, what a TygerTiger, what a Viper wrath and reuenge were, they would at the firſt ſight thereof …
With rule
… it well to pray in wrath? Did men know what a Wolfe, what a TygerTiger, what a Viper wrath and reuenge were, they would at the firſt ſight thereof …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 170 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians A11010

Printed
… faith is, it wil turne a lyon in a meek lamb, and make a tygertiger the meekeſt creature that is. We are in deed borne cruel and ſauage by …
With rule
… faith is, it wil turne a lyon in a meek lamb, and make a tygertiger the meekeſt creature that is. We are in deed borne cruel and ſauage by …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in deed borne cruel and ſauage by nature (for by nature a lyon or tygertiger paſſes not a man in cruelty.) Now what turnes thee frō the nature of …
With rule
… in deed borne cruel and ſauage by nature (for by nature a lyon or tygertiger paſſes not a man in cruelty.) Now what turnes thee frō the nature of …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 124 · Open in the reader