Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27416 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvoodswoods

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

Puritas changed it: 12 times in 11 works
Consistency: 100% (12 of 12)
Reach if approved: ~13 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: woods
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 12 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (12 changes in 11 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To wander, till in VVoodsWoods and dismal Caves,
With rule
To wander, till in VVoodsWoods and dismal Caves,
Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many worlds of men and new created Angels, and let all these millions of VVoodsWoods, Trees, Forrests, Herbs, Grasse, be all made pens, and let all these thousands millions …
With rule
… many worlds of men and new created Angels, and let all these millions of VVoodsWoods, Trees, Forrests, Herbs, Grasse, be all made pens, and let all these thousands millions …
Samuel Rutherford · Sermon 31 January 1644 · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hidden from him: & after he had sold his … as he vvas coniuring in the vvoodswoods, the diuell vvhom he had serued, strangled him for his good seruice: he vvas …
With rule
… hidden from him: & after he had sold his … as he vvas coniuring in the vvoodswoods, the diuell vvhom he had serued, strangled him for his good seruice: he vvas …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
…hat might flie foorth to vvoodswoods, to groues
With rule
…hat might flie foorth to vvoodswoods, to groues
William Loe · Songs of Zion · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
As thicke as leaues of trees among the vvoodswoods in vvynter vvinde.
With rule
As thicke as leaues of trees among the vvoodswoods in vvynter vvinde.
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in theſe Diueliſh arts of Magick, that before he vvas made Pope, in the vvoodswoods he called vppon theſe euill ſpirites, and by his Diuelry cauſed vvemen to follovve …
With rule
… in theſe Diueliſh arts of Magick, that before he vvas made Pope, in the vvoodswoods he called vppon theſe euill ſpirites, and by his Diuelry cauſed vvemen to follovve …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
… world as if it were quite below him: How small do the Fields, and VVoodsWoods, and Countreys, seem to him? Cities and Towns seem but little spots. Thus despicably …
With rule
… world as if it were quite below him: How small do the Fields, and VVoodsWoods, and Countreys, seem to him? Cities and Towns seem but little spots. Thus despicably …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 839 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Marsh, and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, and with all, and singular the VVoodsWoods, Reversions, Presentations, and Rights of him the said Thomas Sutton in any of the …
With rule
… Marsh, and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, and with all, and singular the VVoodsWoods, Reversions, Presentations, and Rights of him the said Thomas Sutton in any of the …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 95 · 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.