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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #28442 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vviddoweswiddowes

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

Puritas changed it
3 times in 2 works
Consistency
50.0% (3 of 6)
Reach if approved
~6 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
widows (3)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3 changes in 2 works, 50.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (3 of 3)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    The VViddowesWiddowes Prayer.
    With rule
    The VViddowesWiddowes Prayer.

    Thomas Sorocold · Supplications of Saints · p. 292 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in the name of a Diſciple, to bee regarded of God. And the poore VViddowesWiddowes Mite ſo acceptable. And without this Faith, there is nothing that we can doe …
    With rule
    … in the name of a Diſciple, to bee regarded of God. And the poore VViddowesWiddowes Mite ſo acceptable. And without this Faith, there is nothing that we can doe …

    Samuel Smith · Christs Last Supper · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … And albeit, it be but a little that I haue gathered, yet with the VViddowesWiddowes Oyle and Meale, which alſo was but little, may notwithſtanding (by Gods blesſing) bee …
    With rule
    … And albeit, it be but a little that I haue gathered, yet with the VViddowesWiddowes Oyle and Meale, which alſo was but little, may notwithſtanding (by Gods blesſing) bee …

    Samuel Smith · Christs Last Supper · 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.