Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27061 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvindwind

Two v's (or u's) for w: vvhich → which.

Puritas changed it: 107 times in 60 works
Consistency: 100% (107 of 107)
Reach if approved: ~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wind
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 107 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (107 changes in 60 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 107)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Jo. VVindWind Interi. Templi alumnus et nuper in Coll: VVad: Comm…ns.
With rule
Jo. VVindWind Interi. Templi alumnus et nuper in Coll: VVad: Comm…ns.
Nicolas Billingsley · The Infancy of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
… descended, then to declare him? Who can give Account of him, who gathers the VVindWind in his Fists? Hath the most unaccountable Motions, or Phaenomens of Nature in his …
With rule
… descended, then to declare him? Who can give Account of him, who gathers the VVindWind in his Fists? Hath the most unaccountable Motions, or Phaenomens of Nature in his …
Thomas Beverley · God All in All · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvayes vnto their faces: yet should they vndoutedly be made as ſtubble before the vvindwind, and as the chaff, vvhich the ſtorm caryeth avvay. For this cauſe and euery …
With rule
… vvayes vnto their faces: yet should they vndoutedly be made as ſtubble before the vvindwind, and as the chaff, vvhich the ſtorm caryeth avvay. For this cauſe and euery …
John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · Open in the reader
Printed
… fitlie to my purpose, that fire and haile, and snow, and vapours, and stormie vvindwind do execute his word. For these and other meteors, are his creatures made by …
With rule
… fitlie to my purpose, that fire and haile, and snow, and vapours, and stormie vvindwind do execute his word. For these and other meteors, are his creatures made by …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lay: But vvhen they came thither they found that they vvere discovered, and the vvindwind changing from East to West, they vvere forced to turn back, and shortly after …
With rule
… lay: But vvhen they came thither they found that they vvere discovered, and the vvindwind changing from East to West, they vvere forced to turn back, and shortly after …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvould be that 'tis made for, if the vvorld did not help it to vvindwind or vvater to ſet it a vvorking, as vvell as ſtuff of vvhich to …
With rule
… vvould be that 'tis made for, if the vvorld did not help it to vvindwind or vvater to ſet it a vvorking, as vvell as ſtuff of vvhich to …
Nathaniel Fairfax · Bulk and Selvage of the World · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
Again, the waters were divided by an Eaſt vvindwind, but that vvindwind blows not from that ſhore, but rather it ſhould have been a Northerly vvindwind …
With rule
Again, the waters were divided by an Eaſt vvindwind, but that vvindwind blows not from that ſhore, but rather it ſhould have been a Northerly vvindwind …
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… withal in a dry Place, where moſt needful. An Hiding-place, but from the VVindWind, which elſe would overthrow, and a Covert, but from the Storm, which elſe would …
With rule
… withal in a dry Place, where moſt needful. An Hiding-place, but from the VVindWind, which elſe would overthrow, and a Covert, but from the Storm, which elſe would …
Anthony Tuckney · Forty Sermons · p. 480 · 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.