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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27340 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvatwat

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

Puritas changed it
16 times in 11 works
Consistency
100% (16 of 16)
Reach if approved
~17 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
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 11 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 16)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … like occaſion / that vve vvould ouerthrovv al kingdomes and ſuperiority: that men might doe) vvatwat they liſte. That yf the Almans, had once ſhaken off the Pope: they vvould …
    With rule
    … like occaſion / that vve vvould ouerthrovv al kingdomes and ſuperiority: that men might doe) vvatwat they liſte. That yf the Almans, had once ſhaken off the Pope: they vvould …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Pesant! Much bussling a rising thereabout, Sir William Walworth, Lord Mayor of London, arrested VVatWat and with his Dagger wounded him; and being well stricken in years, wanted not …
    With rule
    … Pesant! Much bussling a rising thereabout, Sir William Walworth, Lord Mayor of London, arrested VVatWat and with his Dagger wounded him; and being well stricken in years, wanted not …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Q. VVatWat followes hereof?
    With rule
    Q. VVatWat followes hereof?

    William Lyford · Principles of Faith and Good Conscience · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    VVatWat can you ſay?
    With rule
    VVatWat can you ſay?

    Christopher Love · Trial of the Charge of High Treason · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    VVatWat is the ſecond breach in apparell?
    With rule
    VVatWat is the ſecond breach in apparell?

    Thomas Cartwright · Christian Religion · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and lost his head by the Danes; and Simon Sudbury in the fury of VVatWat Tyler and his fellowes: And long before these Saint Iohn Baptist had his head …
    With rule
    … and lost his head by the Danes; and Simon Sudbury in the fury of VVatWat Tyler and his fellowes: And long before these Saint Iohn Baptist had his head …

    Henry Burton · A Full and Satisfactory Answer to the Archbishop of Canterburys Speech · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    VvatWat is gesture.
    With rule
    VvatWat is gesture.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … so had England in the daies of Kinge Richard the second by Iacke Stravve, VVatWat Tiler and other such noble companions; and another such in the raigne of King …
    With rule
    … so had England in the daies of Kinge Richard the second by Iacke Stravve, VVatWat Tiler and other such noble companions; and another such in the raigne of King …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 164 · 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.