Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11050 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

whēwhen

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 7,908 times in 978 works
Consistency: 93.0% (7,908 of 8,497)
Reach if approved: ~8,951 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,519 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: whē (589)
Taken into joins: 15 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,908 changes in 978 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,908)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they walke this way, alſo that it is not good to be ouer preciſe, whēwhen as in goodnes a man cannot proceede too farre, nor offer too much obedience …
With rule
… they walke this way, alſo that it is not good to be ouer preciſe, whēwhen as in goodnes a man cannot proceede too farre, nor offer too much obedience …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wrath, and all that ſo praye with them. Maſter Greenewood complaineth of great iniury, whēwhen I gather from his words, that he condemneth all Churches, becauſe hee knoweth that …
With rule
… wrath, and all that ſo praye with them. Maſter Greenewood complaineth of great iniury, whēwhen I gather from his words, that he condemneth all Churches, becauſe hee knoweth that …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… béetwixte theſe two children Iacob and Eſau. Romaynes. 9. ſaythe thus of this frée Election, whēwhen Rebecca was with child with one and the ſame father Iſaac, before the children …
With rule
… béetwixte theſe two children Iacob and Eſau. Romaynes. 9. ſaythe thus of this frée Election, whēwhen Rebecca was with child with one and the ſame father Iſaac, before the children …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſorts of duties ſound & whole, as thoſe which then onely are pleaſing vnto God, whēwhen they are found together. Mich. 6.7.8. 1. Ioh. 5.2. and 4.20.21. Here then is forbidden, the ſevering of …
With rule
… ſorts of duties ſound & whole, as thoſe which then onely are pleaſing vnto God, whēwhen they are found together. Mich. 6.7.8. 1. Ioh. 5.2. and 4.20.21. Here then is forbidden, the ſevering of …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an eſtate where death cannot come, and to have corruption ſwallowed up of life, whēwhen God ſhall be made glorious in them that beleeve, this makes men truely happy …
With rule
… an eſtate where death cannot come, and to have corruption ſwallowed up of life, whēwhen God ſhall be made glorious in them that beleeve, this makes men truely happy …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for I thinke it not co…uenient to vse many wordes herein. And first whēwhen we heare that saying of Paul, Let a man proue himselfe, and so let …
With rule
… for I thinke it not co…uenient to vse many wordes herein. And first whēwhen we heare that saying of Paul, Let a man proue himselfe, and so let …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… other in composition. Fourthly, whether he meant to attribute any thing to him selfe, whēwhen, as it were correcting that which he saide of labouring, he saith, yet not …
With rule
… other in composition. Fourthly, whether he meant to attribute any thing to him selfe, whēwhen, as it were correcting that which he saide of labouring, he saith, yet not …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 307 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which receiued this tradition at the second hand was beguiled with a fained vntruth whēwhen euen they that were the schollers of the Apostles them selues coulde not agrée …
With rule
… which receiued this tradition at the second hand was beguiled with a fained vntruth whēwhen euen they that were the schollers of the Apostles them selues coulde not agrée …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.