Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27218 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tovvntown

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

Puritas changed it: 29 times in 14 works
Consistency: 100% (29 of 29)
Reach if approved: ~30 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 29 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (29 changes in 14 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 29)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be sold by Iohn Browning, at the Corner of the Prison-Lane next the TovvnTown-House, a Sermon of the late Reverend Mr. VRIAN OAKES, preached from Eccl. 9. 11. Shevving …
With rule
… be sold by Iohn Browning, at the Corner of the Prison-Lane next the TovvnTown-House, a Sermon of the late Reverend Mr. VRIAN OAKES, preached from Eccl. 9. 11. Shevving …
Cotton Mather · Poem Dedicated to Urian Oaks · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called to give in his teſtimony in this kind; vvho being then out of TovvnTown and not appearing the Committee of Commons who managed the Evidence, promiſed to ſend …
With rule
… called to give in his teſtimony in this kind; vvho being then out of TovvnTown and not appearing the Committee of Commons who managed the Evidence, promiſed to ſend …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then vvent he to besiege another strong tovvntown, into vvhich a multitude of people, out of other vveaker places vvere gathered: but …
With rule
Then vvent he to besiege another strong tovvntown, into vvhich a multitude of people, out of other vveaker places vvere gathered: but …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvith the Enemy, complayning then (and not before) of the Weakneſſe of the ſaid TovvnTown and Caſtle, pretending to ſave the men and Armes therein for the ſervice of …
With rule
… vvith the Enemy, complayning then (and not before) of the Weakneſſe of the ſaid TovvnTown and Caſtle, pretending to ſave the men and Armes therein for the ſervice of …
William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sayd preachers being earnestly entreated to preach by the Magistrates and … of the TovvnTown, by occasion of the defect of one of the tvvo vvhich vvas named in …
With rule
… the sayd preachers being earnestly entreated to preach by the Magistrates and … of the TovvnTown, by occasion of the defect of one of the tvvo vvhich vvas named in …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… far ſoever extended. For (as one well writeth) the City is not onely the tovvntown or piece of ground conteyned within compaſſe of the walles thereof, together with the …
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… far ſoever extended. For (as one well writeth) the City is not onely the tovvntown or piece of ground conteyned within compaſſe of the walles thereof, together with the …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an Occular glance upon the Borders, and Fronteirs of it; where there is a TovvnTown call'd Landrake, vulgarly Larrake, at which lives an Aged Reverend Divine, whoſe vvorth is …
With rule
… an Occular glance upon the Borders, and Fronteirs of it; where there is a TovvnTown call'd Landrake, vulgarly Larrake, at which lives an Aged Reverend Divine, whoſe vvorth is …
John Hickes · Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Notes upon Strabo, tells us, from Hesychius, That bria signifieth a Village or TovvnTown upon a hill: So bria signifieth not simply a TovvnTown or Village, but such …
With rule
… his Notes upon Strabo, tells us, from Hesychius, That bria signifieth a Village or TovvnTown upon a hill: So bria signifieth not simply a TovvnTown or Village, but such …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · 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.