Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8550 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sayngsaying

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

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 50 works
Consistency: 98.1% (161 of 164)
Reach if approved: ~172 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: saying
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 50 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… question, whether passive scandall may befall the perfect, and hee denies it, alleaging a sayngsaying of S. Hierome, majores scandala non patiuntur: Those that are stronger suffer not scādals …
With rule
… question, whether passive scandall may befall the perfect, and hee denies it, alleaging a sayngsaying of S. Hierome, majores scandala non patiuntur: Those that are stronger suffer not scādals …
John Tombes · Christs Commination Against Scandalizers · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Subjects Liberties, I shall conclude the first pa…t of this Breviate, with the sayngsaying of Pope Gregory Privilegium meretur amittere, qui abutitur potestate: Hee that abuseth his authority …
With rule
… Subjects Liberties, I shall conclude the first pa…t of this Breviate, with the sayngsaying of Pope Gregory Privilegium meretur amittere, qui abutitur potestate: Hee that abuseth his authority …
William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well stomble, but he can not fall, wherfor your doctryne being contrarie to the sayngsaying of the holie Gost must be fals, as for them which ye say were …
With rule
… well stomble, but he can not fall, wherfor your doctryne being contrarie to the sayngsaying of the holie Gost must be fals, as for them which ye say were …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… murmuring then secretly to them selues, contrary to the manyfest doctrine of Saynte Paule, sayngsaying as oft as ye shal do this, ye shall preache and shewe fourthe (and …
With rule
… murmuring then secretly to them selues, contrary to the manyfest doctrine of Saynte Paule, sayngsaying as oft as ye shal do this, ye shall preache and shewe fourthe (and …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… only agenst the good kyng Ezechias, but also y^• lyuyng God, yea & blasphemed hym, sayngsaying, as y^e moost cruel & lyonlyke tyraunt the great Turke doth nowe a dayes, y^t …
With rule
… only agenst the good kyng Ezechias, but also y^• lyuyng God, yea & blasphemed hym, sayngsaying, as y^e moost cruel & lyonlyke tyraunt the great Turke doth nowe a dayes, y^t …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… of god. For the which prophetes / Salomon prayed so earnestly vnto y^e lorde God, sayngsaying: Heare thou (O God) in heuen thy dwellyng place, and do all that the …
With rule
… of god. For the which prophetes / Salomon prayed so earnestly vnto y^e lorde God, sayngsaying: Heare thou (O God) in heuen thy dwellyng place, and do all that the …
William Tyndale · Declaration of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
… faythfull & electe which professe Christ at baptisme and be called christen. So spake Peter sayngsaying vnto thel…ct which be scatred throughe Pontum. &c. Vvhere vnder the name of …
With rule
… faythfull & electe which professe Christ at baptisme and be called christen. So spake Peter sayngsaying vnto thel…ct which be scatred throughe Pontum. &c. Vvhere vnder the name of …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Reckoning and Declaration of Faith and Belief · Open in the reader
Printed
… geuen vs the ſacramentes conteining hys merciful promiſes, the which thing Sainct Paule declareth, ſayngsaying that the vſe of thē is to ſeale or-print the promiſes of God …
With rule
… geuen vs the ſacramentes conteining hys merciful promiſes, the which thing Sainct Paule declareth, ſayngsaying that the vſe of thē is to ſeale or-print the promiſes of God …
John Calvin · The Catechism · p. 129 · 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.

A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London A04917

Printed
… or thy neyghbour / whom thou loueſt as thy own lyfe / ſhal priuely ſolyſt the / SayngSaying let vs go and ſerue other Goddes, whome thou haſt not knowē. &c. Obey …
With rule
… or thy neyghbour / whom thou loueſt as thy own lyfe / ſhal priuely ſolyſt the / SayngSaying let vs go and ſerue other Goddes, whome thou haſt not knowē. &c. Obey …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

The Supper of the Lord A14153

Printed
… impossible. Paule cōcludeth that Cryste muste nedys haue dyed, vsynge thys latyn terme Necesse. SayngSaying: wherso euer is a testement, there muste the dethe of the testement maker go …
With rule
… impossible. Paule cōcludeth that Cryste muste nedys haue dyed, vsynge thys latyn terme Necesse. SayngSaying: wherso euer is a testement, there muste the dethe of the testement maker go …
William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… iwes. Io. 6. for the…r litteral sence and carnal vnderstandyng of hys spiritual wordis SayngSaying My flesshe profiteth you nothynge at all to eate it. &c. And their litterall …
With rule
… iwes. Io. 6. for the…r litteral sence and carnal vnderstandyng of hys spiritual wordis SayngSaying My flesshe profiteth you nothynge at all to eate it. &c. And their litterall …
William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · p. 16 · Open in the reader