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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #28044 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvarrwarr

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

Puritas changed it
7 times in 4 works
Consistency
30.4% (7 of 23)
Reach if approved
~24 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
23 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
war (16)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7 changes in 4 works, 30.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (6 of 7)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    THE MISERIES OF VVARRWARR.
    With rule
    THE MISERIES OF VVARRWARR.

    John Norton · The Miseries of War · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … were to suffer, it could no more be call'd a Persecution, but a plain VVarrWarr. From which when first the Scots, then the English were constrain'd to defend themselves …
    With rule
    … were to suffer, it could no more be call'd a Persecution, but a plain VVarrWarr. From which when first the Scots, then the English were constrain'd to defend themselves …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Eborum. Southt. Roteland Notingham Wiltes. Oxon. Derby Somerset Salop. Northampt. Dorset Stafford. Bucks. Devon. VVarrWarr. Hunt: Glouc. Essex Wigorn.
    With rule
    … Eborum. Southt. Roteland Notingham Wiltes. Oxon. Derby Somerset Salop. Northampt. Dorset Stafford. Bucks. Devon. VVarrWarr. Hunt: Glouc. Essex Wigorn.

    William Prynne · A Brief Register Part 2 · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Scots, and none ſhall pay Eſcuage, but thoſe which hold to go into the VVarrWarr, and not he that holds by Cornage, nor by keeping a Caſtle, Littleton 18. and …
    With rule
    … Scots, and none ſhall pay Eſcuage, but thoſe which hold to go into the VVarrWarr, and not he that holds by Cornage, nor by keeping a Caſtle, Littleton 18. and …

    John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 414 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a Magazin as was at Hull, which this King so contended for, and made VVarrWarr upon us, that he might have wherewithall to make warr against us.
    With rule
    … a Magazin as was at Hull, which this King so contended for, and made VVarrWarr upon us, that he might have wherewithall to make warr against us.

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … when one holds by Knights Service, and the King goes in avoyage into the VVarrWarr in his proper perſon, or his Leife-Tenant againſt the Scots, and none ſhall …
    With rule
    … when one holds by Knights Service, and the King goes in avoyage into the VVarrWarr in his proper perſon, or his Leife-Tenant againſt the Scots, and none ſhall …

    John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 414 · 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.