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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27239 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvareswares

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

Puritas changed it
25 times in 17 works
Consistency
100% (25 of 25)
Reach if approved
~26 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wares
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
25 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (25 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 25)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … sober Smyle, looked to Philadelphus, and sayde, VVhat doe you thinke, Sir, of these VVaresWares? Is there in them anie such matter of high boasting to our Adversaries, as …
    With rule
    … sober Smyle, looked to Philadelphus, and sayde, VVhat doe you thinke, Sir, of these VVaresWares? Is there in them anie such matter of high boasting to our Adversaries, as …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    VvaresWares of antichriſtes ſynagoge. 8. b
    With rule
    VvaresWares of antichriſtes ſynagoge. 8. b

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a deceitfull gloſſe vpon them, that ſo you might the better vent theſe Rabbinicall vvareswares.
    With rule
    … a deceitfull gloſſe vpon them, that ſo you might the better vent theſe Rabbinicall vvareswares.

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 410 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    VVaresWares.
    With rule
    VVaresWares.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    4. Again; doth falſe making of VVaresWares, and falſe Dealing with Merchants and Cuſtomers, ruine the Trading of any Place? and …
    With rule
    4. Again; doth falſe making of VVaresWares, and falſe Dealing with Merchants and Cuſtomers, ruine the Trading of any Place? and …

    John Collinges · The Weavers Pocket-Book · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vvareswares, nor the seller vvhat may make it less; as suppose one knevv such vvareswares or merchandize vvould shortly grovv cheaper or dearer, and therefore he either selleth or …
    With rule
    … vvareswares, nor the seller vvhat may make it less; as suppose one knevv such vvareswares or merchandize vvould shortly grovv cheaper or dearer, and therefore he either selleth or …

    James Durham · Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments · p. 416 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … He Answers. Even Nothing, and yet VVelcome. Christ plays not the Merchant with his VVaresWares, he makes no Gain, but Crys, the VVell is free. No, says the Pope …
    With rule
    … He Answers. Even Nothing, and yet VVelcome. Christ plays not the Merchant with his VVaresWares, he makes no Gain, but Crys, the VVell is free. No, says the Pope …

    Samuel Rutherford · Christs Napkin · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the mariners vvere afraid, and cried euerie man vnto his God, and caſt the vvareswares out that vvere in the ship to lighten it thereof: but Ionah vvas gone …
    With rule
    … the mariners vvere afraid, and cried euerie man vnto his God, and caſt the vvareswares out that vvere in the ship to lighten it thereof: but Ionah vvas gone …

    Henry Smith · Six Sermons · p. 118 · 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.