Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11413 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wéewe

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

Puritas changed it: 5,266 times in 141 works
Consistency: 100% (5,266 of 5,266)
Reach if approved: ~5,533 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: we
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,266 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,266 changes in 141 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,266)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it downe in clouen fyerie tounges vpon hys Apostles, of whose plentuous aboundaūce all wéewe haue receyued.
With rule
… it downe in clouen fyerie tounges vpon hys Apostles, of whose plentuous aboundaūce all wéewe haue receyued.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… full strength being in all ease and prosperity: their brests are full of marrow. WéeWe see therefore how dangerous a thing it is for men to flatter & soothvp themselues …
With rule
… full strength being in all ease and prosperity: their brests are full of marrow. WéeWe see therefore how dangerous a thing it is for men to flatter & soothvp themselues …
William King · The Strait Gate to Heaven · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. Becauſe it is a duty that wéewe owe vnto God.
With rule
A. Becauſe it is a duty that wéewe owe vnto God.
John Mayer · Catechism Abridged · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs from all sinne, and that his most pretious blood is the onelie Purgatorie wéewe holde, and doth deliuer his people from the punishement due to sinnes, aswell as …
With rule
… vs from all sinne, and that his most pretious blood is the onelie Purgatorie wéewe holde, and doth deliuer his people from the punishement due to sinnes, aswell as …
Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue our wilde Boares deuoured, and our fierie couetouſneſſe hath burnt vp; for doe wéewe thinke that Dauid ſpeakes of any materiall fire or vine? Will God take this …
With rule
… haue our wilde Boares deuoured, and our fierie couetouſneſſe hath burnt vp; for doe wéewe thinke that Dauid ſpeakes of any materiall fire or vine? Will God take this …
Francis Trigge · Petition of Two Sisters · Open in the reader
Printed
… For Pantheon ſignifieth as muche, as if wéewe ſhoulde ſaye, all Gods, euen as wéewe ſaye, all Saintes. For they had thoſe Gods in ſuch reputation, as you haue …
With rule
… For Pantheon ſignifieth as muche, as if wéewe ſhoulde ſaye, all Gods, euen as wéewe ſaye, all Saintes. For they had thoſe Gods in ſuch reputation, as you haue …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader
Printed
… them from vs perforce, I will shewe that in accounte of Papistes them selues, wéewe haue one more then those two. For except they did acknowledge vs to haue …
With rule
… them from vs perforce, I will shewe that in accounte of Papistes them selues, wéewe haue one more then those two. For except they did acknowledge vs to haue …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Then let vs come to the particular applieng of this point: to ſée howe wéewe are to deale with our ſelues. Whē ye receiue y^e word take héede y^t …
With rule
… Then let vs come to the particular applieng of this point: to ſée howe wéewe are to deale with our ſelues. Whē ye receiue y^e word take héede y^t …
George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · 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.