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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7476 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saydesaid

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
8,884 times in 455 works
Consistency
99.9% (8,884 of 8,887)
Reach if approved
~9,338 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: said
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
8,887 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,884 changes in 455 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,884)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … for a coueringe of all their myschefes. in so moch the Prophete complayned and saydesaid / how they cowed saye the Lorde lyueth / yet did they sweare to deceyue. Christ …
    With rule
    … for a coueringe of all their myschefes. in so moch the Prophete complayned and saydesaid / how they cowed saye the Lorde lyueth / yet did they sweare to deceyue. Christ …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … iniquitie would not suffer it to enioy. Howbeit that which the wise man hath saydesaid concerning Enoch (whose dayes were though many in respect of ours, yet scarse as …
    With rule
    … iniquitie would not suffer it to enioy. Howbeit that which the wise man hath saydesaid concerning Enoch (whose dayes were though many in respect of ours, yet scarse as …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 202 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ¶ Ieſus ſaydesaid / vnto his diſciples. Verely I ſaye vnto you / a ryche man ſhall with difficulte …
    With rule
    ¶ Ieſus ſaydesaid / vnto his diſciples. Verely I ſaye vnto you / a ryche man ſhall with difficulte …

    John Johnsone · An Comfortable Exhortation · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … indeede, evinced, of the former: that it is no proper Marke: yet, as I saydesaid, and you also admitted of the others: so, you can not denye, of VNITIE …
    With rule
    … indeede, evinced, of the former: that it is no proper Marke: yet, as I saydesaid, and you also admitted of the others: so, you can not denye, of VNITIE …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The place wherein the cloudes doe hange is saydesaid to be in the midle region of the ayre, because men sée it is …
    With rule
    The place wherein the cloudes doe hange is saydesaid to be in the midle region of the ayre, because men sée it is …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to pray, in an vnknowene tongue, as Elxai, the great Pope of thoſe heretikes ſaydesaid: Nemo quaerat interpretationem, ſed ſolum in oratione haec dicat. Let no man ſeeke the …
    With rule
    … to pray, in an vnknowene tongue, as Elxai, the great Pope of thoſe heretikes ſaydesaid: Nemo quaerat interpretationem, ſed ſolum in oratione haec dicat. Let no man ſeeke the …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of humane luſtes, there is no baſer bondage and drudgery. It cannot rightly be ſaydesaid that ſuch a minde is in freedome, and will not bee brought vnder, for …
    With rule
    … of humane luſtes, there is no baſer bondage and drudgery. It cannot rightly be ſaydesaid that ſuch a minde is in freedome, and will not bee brought vnder, for …

    George Gifford · Treatise of True Fortitude · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    I pray God it may neuer bee ſaydesaid of our Iudges of England, as once was ſayd of the Iudges of Iſrael …
    With rule
    I pray God it may neuer bee ſaydesaid of our Iudges of England, as once was ſayd of the Iudges of Iſrael …

    Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound A19649

  • Printed
    The Lord. That is God the Father. SaydeSaid to my Lord. That is to God the Sonne. &c. Héere haue we two …
    With rule
    The Lord. That is God the Father. SaydeSaid to my Lord. That is to God the Sonne. &c. Héere haue we two …

    Robert Crowley · An Answer to Six Reasons of Thomas Pound · Open in the reader

Philargyry of Great Britain A19665

  • Printed
    SaydeSaid, be it as thou haſt told
    With rule
    SaydeSaid, be it as thou haſt told

    Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    … agayne? O this blindneſſe, as God had wrought nothing in the repentaunce of Peter. SaydeSaid not Chriſt before, that Peter ſhould falle. And ſayd he not that he had …
    With rule
    … agayne? O this blindneſſe, as God had wrought nothing in the repentaunce of Peter. SaydeSaid not Chriſt before, that Peter ſhould falle. And ſayd he not that he had …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 332 · Open in the reader