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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27976 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvhitingwhiting

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

Puritas changed it
3 times in 3 works
Consistency
100% (3 of 3)
Reach if approved
~3 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: whiting
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3 changes in 3 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (3 of 3)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that corrupter of the Rabbies commentaries, … Aelianus the Italian hath vvith a kind of vvhitingwhiting, blotted such places quite out, in the last great Venice Byble: as that exposition …
    With rule
    … that corrupter of the Rabbies commentaries, … Aelianus the Italian hath vvith a kind of vvhitingwhiting, blotted such places quite out, in the last great Venice Byble: as that exposition …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Henrici VVhitingWhiting.
    With rule
    Henrici VVhitingWhiting.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 267 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … He should therefore go to Hartford and kill Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Hains, and Mr. VVhitingWhiting and he would give him a reward, and thereupon pluckt out of his bag …
    With rule
    … He should therefore go to Hartford and kill Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Hains, and Mr. VVhitingWhiting and he would give him a reward, and thereupon pluckt out of his bag …

    Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 61 · 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.