Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8959 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saylessails

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

Puritas changed it: 164 times in 122 works
Consistency: 82.4% (164 of 199)
Reach if approved: ~210 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sails
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 200 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (164 changes in 122 works, 82.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 164)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… are excluded (that is not my meaning) for they may adde vvindes to the saylessails, though holinesse may guide the rudder, and keepe the course, and make the sterage …
With rule
… are excluded (that is not my meaning) for they may adde vvindes to the saylessails, though holinesse may guide the rudder, and keepe the course, and make the sterage …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are by the vylest of the people contemned; and so sometimes Ionas turneth his saylessails from Niniueh to Tharshish.
With rule
… are by the vylest of the people contemned; and so sometimes Ionas turneth his saylessails from Niniueh to Tharshish.
Henry Smith · The Affinity of the Faithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… staying for the pleasant gales of the Westerne wind, did fearelesly hoyse up their saylessails, and went beyond the Pilars of Hercules, then those Hands, Continents, Nations and Merchants …
With rule
… staying for the pleasant gales of the Westerne wind, did fearelesly hoyse up their saylessails, and went beyond the Pilars of Hercules, then those Hands, Continents, Nations and Merchants …
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was ſhame to leaue all vnperfect: and their ſhyppe tymber was rotten, and their ſaylessails were ragged: which poy…Tres, all were contrary to returnyng: notwithſtanding the multitude tooke …
With rule
… was ſhame to leaue all vnperfect: and their ſhyppe tymber was rotten, and their ſaylessails were ragged: which poy…Tres, all were contrary to returnyng: notwithſtanding the multitude tooke …
Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader
Printed
Now, in this Sea, every ſhip that ſaylessails muſt neceſſarily have ſome part of the ſhip under water; Every man that lives …
With rule
Now, in this Sea, every ſhip that ſaylessails muſt neceſſarily have ſome part of the ſhip under water; Every man that lives …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 736 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was afterward cast upon the fire of his anger. In the Spring King Philip saylessails with his Army to Ptolemais otherwise called Acon) which the Christians had long besieged …
With rule
… was afterward cast upon the fire of his anger. In the Spring King Philip saylessails with his Army to Ptolemais otherwise called Acon) which the Christians had long besieged …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be brought forth to procure a wind; & presently a prosperous gale filling their saylessails, the Duke himself first took ship, and launched forth, and all the rest after …
With rule
… to be brought forth to procure a wind; & presently a prosperous gale filling their saylessails, the Duke himself first took ship, and launched forth, and all the rest after …
William Prynne · The Exact Recorder · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
… behauiour. For we haue no warrant of his ſafe conducting of vs vnder thoſe ſaylessails of vncleanneſſe, but threatening, that in ſo dooing we ſhall make ſhipwracke of all …
With rule
… behauiour. For we haue no warrant of his ſafe conducting of vs vnder thoſe ſaylessails of vncleanneſſe, but threatening, that in ſo dooing we ſhall make ſhipwracke of all …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 122 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 27 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Posing Question Put by the Wise Man A26847

Printed
… from the South; yet the Scripture teacheth a Chriſtian, the skill of ſetting his SaylesSails ſo, as that they ſhall further him in his Voyage towards Heaven.
With rule
… from the South; yet the Scripture teacheth a Chriſtian, the skill of ſetting his SaylesSails ſo, as that they ſhall further him in his Voyage towards Heaven.
Benjamin Baxter · A Posing Question Put by the Wise Man · p. 132 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… them some murthering Engines, they made … hideous noise, took up Anchours, cutt Cables, spread SaylesSails, and betook themselves to their Oars, but more to flight: One of the Spanish …
With rule
… them some murthering Engines, they made … hideous noise, took up Anchours, cutt Cables, spread SaylesSails, and betook themselves to their Oars, but more to flight: One of the Spanish …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 81 · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

Printed
… the Gunner, Presumption the Corporall, Sedition the Trumpeter, Drunkennesse the Drummer, Vices are the SaylesSails, Custome the Main-mast, Example of the multitude the Fore-mast, Lusts and passions …
With rule
… the Gunner, Presumption the Corporall, Sedition the Trumpeter, Drunkennesse the Drummer, Vices are the SaylesSails, Custome the Main-mast, Example of the multitude the Fore-mast, Lusts and passions …
Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 396 · Open in the reader

The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul A68795

Printed
… content in any thing except it bee fulfilled, but will put out all her SaylesSails and Oares, in ſtrong purſuance, Pſal. 63.8. My ſoule followeth hard after thee.
With rule
… content in any thing except it bee fulfilled, but will put out all her SaylesSails and Oares, in ſtrong purſuance, Pſal. 63.8. My ſoule followeth hard after thee.
Joseph Symonds · The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul · p. 267 · Open in the reader

The Gale of Opportunity A84939

Printed
… your thoughts firſt with God before you fill them with the world; fill your SaylesSails with the gales of Chriſt, before they are filled with the aery vanities of …
With rule
… your thoughts firſt with God before you fill them with the world; fill your SaylesSails with the gales of Chriſt, before they are filled with the aery vanities of …
Thomas Froysell · The Gale of Opportunity · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
And poſt on to it, with full SaylesSails each day;
With rule
And poſt on to it, with full SaylesSails each day;
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 103 · Open in the reader

A Voyage to East India A95658

Printed
… day the Caraque departed again to Sea, we all looſed our Ankers, opened our SaylesSails, and …ollowed. The day now left us and our proud Adverſary unwilling as it …
With rule
… day the Caraque departed again to Sea, we all looſed our Ankers, opened our SaylesSails, and …ollowed. The day now left us and our proud Adverſary unwilling as it …
Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of her chief Officers, upon which, without any further reſiſtance, ſhe preſently ſtrook her SaylesSails and yeelded. Our Engliſh preſently commanded her Gunners, and ſome other of her Chief …
With rule
… of her chief Officers, upon which, without any further reſiſtance, ſhe preſently ſtrook her SaylesSails and yeelded. Our Engliſh preſently commanded her Gunners, and ſome other of her Chief …
Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 163 · Open in the reader