Waiting for reviewi / jCandidate #5719 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iotjot

i standing for j: Iesus → Jesus, iudge → judge.

Puritas changed it: 345 times in 198 works
Consistency: 96.6% (345 of 357)
Reach if approved: ~375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jot
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 357 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (345 changes in 198 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 345)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and I may often ſpend words idly, but the holy ſpirit cannot waſte one iotjot or ſillable. The cauſe of this repetition is: Paul cannot forget the thing that …
With rule
… and I may often ſpend words idly, but the holy ſpirit cannot waſte one iotjot or ſillable. The cauſe of this repetition is: Paul cannot forget the thing that …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Iesus Chrst are yea & amen; that though heauē & earth shall passe. yet on… iotjot or title thereof shall neuer passe. For that which the Father hath in times …
With rule
… in Iesus Chrst are yea & amen; that though heauē & earth shall passe. yet on… iotjot or title thereof shall neuer passe. For that which the Father hath in times …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Though heauen and earth should passe away, (saith our Sauiour) yet shall no one iotjot or tittle of his word passe away, vntill it bee all out, euerie whit …
With rule
… Though heauen and earth should passe away, (saith our Sauiour) yet shall no one iotjot or tittle of his word passe away, vntill it bee all out, euerie whit …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lifts vp to heauen; and infinit by merits he ransomes from purgatory: not a iotjot without money; cruces, altaria, Christum: he selles Christs crosse, Christs blood, Christs selfe; all …
With rule
… lifts vp to heauen; and infinit by merits he ransomes from purgatory: not a iotjot without money; cruces, altaria, Christum: he selles Christs crosse, Christs blood, Christs selfe; all …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in it ſelfe is not altered. Heauen and earth ſhall paſſe away, but one iotjot or tittle of the law ſhall not paſſe vnaccompliſhed. Mat. 5.18. This, the phraſe of …
With rule
… in it ſelfe is not altered. Heauen and earth ſhall paſſe away, but one iotjot or tittle of the law ſhall not paſſe vnaccompliſhed. Mat. 5.18. This, the phraſe of …
Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we then looke for? but as theſe former corrections, haue brought vs no one iotjot neerer to repentance, or loue of Gods word, ſo the Lord will yet ſtretch …
With rule
… we then looke for? but as theſe former corrections, haue brought vs no one iotjot neerer to repentance, or loue of Gods word, ſo the Lord will yet ſtretch …
Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader
Printed
… borroweth a phrase from the Hebrewe Alphabet, wherein Iod is the least letter: One iotjot; signifying, that not so much, as this little letter Iod, shall passe out of …
With rule
… borroweth a phrase from the Hebrewe Alphabet, wherein Iod is the least letter: One iotjot; signifying, that not so much, as this little letter Iod, shall passe out of …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in vaine with this talke about the Hebrue ▪ For I will not yéelde one iotjot from the decrée of the Councell of Trent. Wherefore if you can proue out …
With rule
… in vaine with this talke about the Hebrue ▪ For I will not yéelde one iotjot from the decrée of the Councell of Trent. Wherefore if you can proue out …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 250 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Five Godly and Profitable Sermons A09262

Printed
… to God. In everie point he fulfilled all Righteousnesse to the least Title, and IotJot of the Law. Grace was powred into his lips, and from them into his …
With rule
… to God. In everie point he fulfilled all Righteousnesse to the least Title, and IotJot of the Law. Grace was powred into his lips, and from them into his …
William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 70 · Open in the reader

The New Covenant A09990

Printed
One is; for, sayth he, every IotJot of the Law, is of so much worth, though you thinke it a small …
With rule
One is; for, sayth he, every IotJot of the Law, is of so much worth, though you thinke it a small …
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 241 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A15525

Printed
… so kept, as to remaine intire without losse of any Booke, nay, of any IotJot or Tittle (as very Iudiciously learned men do think) this diuine protection doth argue …
With rule
… so kept, as to remaine intire without losse of any Booke, nay, of any IotJot or Tittle (as very Iudiciously learned men do think) this diuine protection doth argue …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 12 · Open in the reader