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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27339 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvawa

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

Puritas changed it
16 times in 16 works
Consistency
100% (16 of 16)
Reach if approved
~17 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
16 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (16 changes in 16 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 16)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Ieſuited Romists; or as if the ſoules of Briſtoe, and Garnet, and Oldcorn, and VVaWa…ſon; yea of Varade, and Verona, and Heureux, and Emanuel Sa had all broke …
    With rule
    … Ieſuited Romists; or as if the ſoules of Briſtoe, and Garnet, and Oldcorn, and VVaWa…ſon; yea of Varade, and Verona, and Heureux, and Emanuel Sa had all broke …

    Edward Willan · King Charles the Second · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    51. 4. VVaWa…he me from mine iniquitie. 155. b. 2.
    With rule
    51. 4. VVaWa…he me from mine iniquitie. 155. b. 2.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … grape of a thorne: such is the fruit of this branch of my Text, VvaWa de spina, a sweet and wholsome grape, yet growing upon a thorne. You will …
    With rule
    … grape of a thorne: such is the fruit of this branch of my Text, VvaWa de spina, a sweet and wholsome grape, yet growing upon a thorne. You will …

    Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … neither may vve bid them God Speed. The Word of the Lord is the vvawa…, light and Lanthorne to our Feet, vvhich send forth sufficiently the beames of truth …
    With rule
    … neither may vve bid them God Speed. The Word of the Lord is the vvawa…, light and Lanthorne to our Feet, vvhich send forth sufficiently the beames of truth …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Philistian-like troupe, and their Goliah-like Champions, who haue railed vpon that which vvawa… prepared for the honor of the liueing God: And (though I am not vsed …
    With rule
    … Philistian-like troupe, and their Goliah-like Champions, who haue railed vpon that which vvawa… prepared for the honor of the liueing God: And (though I am not vsed …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … where any difficulty or danger was, but as one wholely respecting this vvorlde, hee vvawa…ovveth in vvealth, and pleasures at home, or if by any accident hee bee …
    With rule
    … where any difficulty or danger was, but as one wholely respecting this vvorlde, hee vvawa…ovveth in vvealth, and pleasures at home, or if by any accident hee bee …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    WEe haue ſaid before, that to returne by the ſame vvawa…, ſignifies, To goe his way without performing any thing; as wee vſe to ſay …
    With rule
    WEe haue ſaid before, that to returne by the ſame vvawa…, ſignifies, To goe his way without performing any thing; as wee vſe to ſay …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 379 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Geo. Pu…ient, Ar. D…gswel Gules 3 Crescents Ar. 3 Tho. Docwray, ar. ut prius 4 VVaWa. Mildmay, ar. & Leon. Hide, Miles. ut prius Albury Or, a Chever. between 3 Lezenges Az …
    With rule
    … Geo. Pu…ient, Ar. D…gswel Gules 3 Crescents Ar. 3 Tho. Docwray, ar. ut prius 4 VVaWa. Mildmay, ar. & Leon. Hide, Miles. ut prius Albury Or, a Chever. between 3 Lezenges Az …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 31 · 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.