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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27770 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvagewage

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

Puritas changed it
4 times in 4 works
Consistency
100% (4 of 4)
Reach if approved
~4 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wage
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
4 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4 changes in 4 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (4 of 4)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to diminish and annihilate his authority and lavves both: And for a King to vvagewage vvarre againſt the Body of a land, to pleaſure Fourteen of a fevv of …
    With rule
    … to diminish and annihilate his authority and lavves both: And for a King to vvagewage vvarre againſt the Body of a land, to pleaſure Fourteen of a fevv of …

    James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … kings cofers and seize the lande of those holye alians, leaste they might perhaps vvagewage foreigne soldiar vvith English pay, agaynst the king of England. vvhereof they gaue manifest …
    With rule
    … kings cofers and seize the lande of those holye alians, leaste they might perhaps vvagewage foreigne soldiar vvith English pay, agaynst the king of England. vvhereof they gaue manifest …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhould forbear to oppreſs the Jews any further, being their Confederates, otherwiſe they vvould vvagewage War upon him both by Land and Sea. And this vvas the firſt League …
    With rule
    … ſhould forbear to oppreſs the Jews any further, being their Confederates, otherwiſe they vvould vvagewage War upon him both by Land and Sea. And this vvas the firſt League …

    Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    VVAGEWAGE.
    With rule
    VVAGEWAGE.

    Edward Leigh · A Philological Commentary · p. 235 · 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.