Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #280 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vsageusage

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 826 times in 325 works
Consistency: 97.2% (826 of 849)
Reach if approved: ~892 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usage
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 849 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (826 changes in 325 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 826)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
If you wyll alſo reforme the wrong & vnproper vſageusage of the impropryatyons, fyrſte geuen to the cleargye, for teachynge of the people and …
With rule
If you wyll alſo reforme the wrong & vnproper vſageusage of the impropryatyons, fyrſte geuen to the cleargye, for teachynge of the people and …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… Behold, I send you as Lambes among Woolues: hee sayd so, that foreknew our vsageusage. Amara est veritas, et qui eam praedicat, repletur amaritudine. Bitter is the Truth, and …
With rule
… Behold, I send you as Lambes among Woolues: hee sayd so, that foreknew our vsageusage. Amara est veritas, et qui eam praedicat, repletur amaritudine. Bitter is the Truth, and …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader
Printed
… yt comprehendeth / euen for menne / in whom also are included womē by the common vsageusage of the Scripturs.
With rule
… yt comprehendeth / euen for menne / in whom also are included womē by the common vsageusage of the Scripturs.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayd Sacraments haue the effect whiche the sayd Church teacheth, and that the forme & vsageusage wherwith they be ministred to Christians, is holie and necessarie. I acknowledge also that …
With rule
… sayd Sacraments haue the effect whiche the sayd Church teacheth, and that the forme & vsageusage wherwith they be ministred to Christians, is holie and necessarie. I acknowledge also that …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. CXXV · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Prelates can) be brought within daunger of theyr lives. Take for example the vsageusage of Mr. Udall, Mr Cartwright, Mr Field, Mr Wiburne, Mr Wigginton, Mr Lord, Mr …
With rule
… the Prelates can) be brought within daunger of theyr lives. Take for example the vsageusage of Mr. Udall, Mr Cartwright, Mr Field, Mr Wiburne, Mr Wigginton, Mr Lord, Mr …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the poore members of Chriſt, are ſtamped vnder foot, and droue by vnkind vſageusage both out of the Kingdome.
With rule
… and the poore members of Chriſt, are ſtamped vnder foot, and droue by vnkind vſageusage both out of the Kingdome.
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… superintendentes in the gouernement of his Church, and to iudge vs according to our vsageusage & proceedinges therein. &c. Heere nowe haue you set downe before your eyes a president …
With rule
… superintendentes in the gouernement of his Church, and to iudge vs according to our vsageusage & proceedinges therein. &c. Heere nowe haue you set downe before your eyes a president …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath buried his minde in dronkenneſſe. Therefore if it be an vnprofitable and hurtefull vſageusage, to preferre mans traditions before God his commaundementes, the Church in S. Auguſtines time …
With rule
… hath buried his minde in dronkenneſſe. Therefore if it be an vnprofitable and hurtefull vſageusage, to preferre mans traditions before God his commaundementes, the Church in S. Auguſtines time …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 91 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 23 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.