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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27366 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unknovvnunknown

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

Puritas changed it
14 times in 9 works
Consistency
100% (14 of 14)
Reach if approved
~15 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: unknown
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
14 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (14 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 14)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … doubtfull, if not improbable: For they had more anciently an altar inſcribed UNTO THE UNKNOVVNUNKNOWN GODS, which Pauſanias maketh mention of in his fifth book, foreign. And concerning the books …
    With rule
    … doubtfull, if not improbable: For they had more anciently an altar inſcribed UNTO THE UNKNOVVNUNKNOWN GODS, which Pauſanias maketh mention of in his fifth book, foreign. And concerning the books …

    John Sherman · A Greek in the Temple · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the World, the Founding the Church, and the Infancy thereof, things unheard of, and unknovvnunknown amongſt the Heathen, deſcribed, and recorded in no other Writings in the World, but …
    With rule
    … the World, the Founding the Church, and the Infancy thereof, things unheard of, and unknovvnunknown amongſt the Heathen, deſcribed, and recorded in no other Writings in the World, but …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … much did he love his, vvhen the very oyl vvhich conſecrated him to thoſe unknovvnunknown ſorrovvs, vvas the oyl of gladneſs to him! Remember this love more then vvine:
    With rule
    … much did he love his, vvhen the very oyl vvhich conſecrated him to thoſe unknovvnunknown ſorrovvs, vvas the oyl of gladneſs to him! Remember this love more then vvine:

    George Swinnock · The Christian Mans Calling · p. 299 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … make a particular confeſſion of all his ſins, yet God knovvs all, both the unknovvnunknown errous, and the confeſſed tranſgr…ſſions.
    With rule
    … make a particular confeſſion of all his ſins, yet God knovvs all, both the unknovvnunknown errous, and the confeſſed tranſgr…ſſions.

    Thomas Byrdall · A Glimpse of God · p. 283 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Creation, or Non-Creation, and poſſible to be knovvn by him, and yet vvere unknovvnunknown to him, he could not be ſaid to be Omniſcient. As he vvould not …
    With rule
    … Creation, or Non-Creation, and poſſible to be knovvn by him, and yet vvere unknovvnunknown to him, he could not be ſaid to be Omniſcient. As he vvould not …

    Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 280 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … plunder had begun to be us'd amongst us. Plunder both name and thing, vvas unknovvnunknown in England, till the beginning of the War; and the War began not, till …
    With rule
    … plunder had begun to be us'd amongst us. Plunder both name and thing, vvas unknovvnunknown in England, till the beginning of the War; and the War began not, till …

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … into ſmoak; he knows not whither, and you will finde this Inſcription, TO THE UNKNOVVNUNKNOWN GOD, on the altar of his heart, or David was no Prophet, Pſal. 14.1. Who …
    With rule
    … into ſmoak; he knows not whither, and you will finde this Inſcription, TO THE UNKNOVVNUNKNOWN GOD, on the altar of his heart, or David was no Prophet, Pſal. 14.1. Who …

    John Godolphin · The Holy Limbeck(1) · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    But our Author tells us, yea, it is not unknovvnunknown hovv careful one of the English Commissioners vvas to have that clause inserted, according …
    With rule
    But our Author tells us, yea, it is not unknovvnunknown hovv careful one of the English Commissioners vvas to have that clause inserted, according …

    Robert McWard · The Case of The Accommodation Proposed by the Bishop of Dunblane · p. 131 · 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.