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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #27999 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvolstanwolstan

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: wolstan
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
    Anno 952. VVolstanWolstan Arch-Bishop of Yorke, was convict of an hainous crime, who forgetting that dutifull …
    With rule
    Anno 952. VVolstanWolstan Arch-Bishop of Yorke, was convict of an hainous crime, who forgetting that dutifull …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … by a peculiar exception do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors, who from VVolstanWolstan de Paston (who three years after the Conquest came into England to VVilliam Earl …
    With rule
    … by a peculiar exception do straggle from the Sepulture of their Ancestors, who from VVolstanWolstan de Paston (who three years after the Conquest came into England to VVilliam Earl …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 250 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … de Raleigh, An. 1240. after Henry Spencer, An. 1406. almost 2. years, An. 1095. after the death of VVolstanWolstan Bishop of VVorcester, that See was kept vacant 2. years, An. 1113. as long after Sampson …
    With rule
    … de Raleigh, An. 1240. after Henry Spencer, An. 1406. almost 2. years, An. 1095. after the death of VVolstanWolstan Bishop of VVorcester, that See was kept vacant 2. years, An. 1113. as long after Sampson …

    Jan Hus · Vindication of the Authority of Christian Kings · p. 43 · 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.