Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1092 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vncouthuncouth

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 178 times in 82 works
Consistency: 98.8% (178 of 180)
Reach if approved: ~189 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uncouth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 180 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 82 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… conſcience: Onely thus much Ile ſay, if all of them ſound as riddles and vncouthuncouth myſteries vnto thee, if thou never kneweſt any thing like to what was propoſed …
With rule
… conſcience: Onely thus much Ile ſay, if all of them ſound as riddles and vncouthuncouth myſteries vnto thee, if thou never kneweſt any thing like to what was propoſed …
William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
Let vs then thinke it no vncouthuncouth thing, when we ſee innocent blood ſhed ſo abundantly, that the ſtreets of Ieruſalem …
With rule
Let vs then thinke it no vncouthuncouth thing, when we ſee innocent blood ſhed ſo abundantly, that the ſtreets of Ieruſalem …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… daies taken vnto themselues great libertie, in Sermons, Lectures, writings, to set abroach strange & vncouthuncouth doctrines, exorbitant from the current doctrine among Protestants, it might please this honourable Court …
With rule
… daies taken vnto themselues great libertie, in Sermons, Lectures, writings, to set abroach strange & vncouthuncouth doctrines, exorbitant from the current doctrine among Protestants, it might please this honourable Court …
Andrew Willet · A Canvas of Limbus Patrum · Open in the reader
Printed
… shall confesse this to bee true: God for a space will seeme to bee vncouthuncouth: Hee, as Naomie bade Ruth returne home with her Sister …rpah, will bidde a …
With rule
… shall confesse this to bee true: God for a space will seeme to bee vncouthuncouth: Hee, as Naomie bade Ruth returne home with her Sister …rpah, will bidde a …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their choice, they befoole themselues at leasure, perceiving those places to be but vncouthuncouth prisons within, which while they beheld them without, seemed princely palaces. But now it …
With rule
… of their choice, they befoole themselues at leasure, perceiving those places to be but vncouthuncouth prisons within, which while they beheld them without, seemed princely palaces. But now it …
John Cameron · Examination of those Plausible Appearances in the Romish Church · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… departit from the haly ordinances & Lawis of the Lord, sa that this was na vncouthuncouth or new thing that happinnit vnto thē, but ane inueterat & auld euill quhilk from …
With rule
… departit from the haly ordinances & Lawis of the Lord, sa that this was na vncouthuncouth or new thing that happinnit vnto thē, but ane inueterat & auld euill quhilk from …
David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader
Printed
… praiſe of men, more than the praiſe of God , ſoare ſo high, in ſuch vncouthuncouth words, and in ſuch an affected kind of eloquence, that they become as Barbarians …
With rule
… praiſe of men, more than the praiſe of God , ſoare ſo high, in ſuch vncouthuncouth words, and in ſuch an affected kind of eloquence, that they become as Barbarians …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may be merited by mumbling vp euery day on their Beades theſe ſhort and vncouthuncouth prayers, what need any ſeeke for further knowledge in the word of God? If …
With rule
… may be merited by mumbling vp euery day on their Beades theſe ſhort and vncouthuncouth prayers, what need any ſeeke for further knowledge in the word of God? If …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 356 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.