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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8401 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sayngesaying

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

Puritas changed it
122 times in 42 works
Consistency
99.1% (122 of 123)
Reach if approved
~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: saying
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (122 changes in 42 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 122)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ye ſaye) are contayned manye ſondrye errours and hereſyes. It maye wele be your ſayngesaying, for we ſe neyther them nor the bokes as yet. Ye haue buryed thē …
    With rule
    … ye ſaye) are contayned manye ſondrye errours and hereſyes. It maye wele be your ſayngesaying, for we ſe neyther them nor the bokes as yet. Ye haue buryed thē …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … by ſuche tryfelynge gentylnes / clokynge theyr yre / and excuſe them ſelfe after this facyon / ſayngesaying I wold not be angry yf I myght be in reſte for other / euen …
    With rule
    … by ſuche tryfelynge gentylnes / clokynge theyr yre / and excuſe them ſelfe after this facyon / ſayngesaying I wold not be angry yf I myght be in reſte for other / euen …

    Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … his age, that he wold depart from the banket, and go to hys reste, sayngesaying, that he wolde kepe thembassadours companye. When he hadde thus conuayed awaye hys father …
    With rule
    … his age, that he wold depart from the banket, and go to hys reste, sayngesaying, that he wolde kepe thembassadours companye. When he hadde thus conuayed awaye hys father …

    Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom Book 2 · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … made of none effecte / thorowe ther owne tradiciōs Matth. xv. where Chriſt rebuketh thē ſayngesaying: whi trāſgreſſe ye y• cōmaūdemētes of god thorou your tradicions: and partly had corrupt …
    With rule
    … made of none effecte / thorowe ther owne tradiciōs Matth. xv. where Chriſt rebuketh thē ſayngesaying: whi trāſgreſſe ye y• cōmaūdemētes of god thorou your tradicions: and partly had corrupt …

    William Tyndale · Faith Justifies Us Before We Can Bring Forth any Good Work · p. xlv · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Apostle when he said, that a woman and a virgyn are separated, in so sayngesaying he sette the difference betwext them, that is to saye, because the one taketh …
    With rule
    … Apostle when he said, that a woman and a virgyn are separated, in so sayngesaying he sette the difference betwext them, that is to saye, because the one taketh …

    Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ought to be openly chaſtiſed, or excommunicate. I forgeue thē one errour in this ſayngesaying which is our lord would not that the church ſhould precede vnto excōmunication, whā …
    With rule
    … ought to be openly chaſtiſed, or excommunicate. I forgeue thē one errour in this ſayngesaying which is our lord would not that the church ſhould precede vnto excōmunication, whā …

    John Calvin · Against the Errors of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … memoriall of that sacrifice wherewyth chryste offered hys body for oure synnes and commaunded sayngesaying / thys doo in the remembraunce off me. we be not holpe with any visible …
    With rule
    … memoriall of that sacrifice wherewyth chryste offered hys body for oure synnes and commaunded sayngesaying / thys doo in the remembraunce off me. we be not holpe with any visible …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. Cx · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … frō their mothers wombe, they erre from their byrth, & speake lyes. Consydre thys waighty sayngesaying of Esdras. Iniqui omnes filii hominum, et iniqua illorum omnia opera, et non est …
    With rule
    … frō their mothers wombe, they erre from their byrth, & speake lyes. Consydre thys waighty sayngesaying of Esdras. Iniqui omnes filii hominum, et iniqua illorum omnia opera, et non est …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lvii · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.