Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #43 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vnderstoodunderstood

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

Puritas changed it: 8,815 times in 864 works
Consistency: 99.9% (8,815 of 8,818)
Reach if approved: ~9,265 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: understood
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,818 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,815 changes in 864 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,815)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… praier, that concerned his owne person, spake with a toūg that was not commonly vnderstoodunderstood, therefore the ordinary publike seruice ought to be in a straūge toung. Christ compassed …
With rule
… praier, that concerned his owne person, spake with a toūg that was not commonly vnderstoodunderstood, therefore the ordinary publike seruice ought to be in a straūge toung. Christ compassed …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not carnally to be taken, nor is in a carnall manner to be vnderstoodunderstood.
With rule
… is not carnally to be taken, nor is in a carnall manner to be vnderstoodunderstood.
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. How is that to bee vnderſtoodunderstood?
With rule
Q. How is that to bee vnderſtoodunderstood?
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… ad modum procurantis speciem, non designantis individuum. Which shall be more plainly and particularly vnderstoodunderstood, in these Propositions which followe.
With rule
… ad modum procurantis speciem, non designantis individuum. Which shall be more plainly and particularly vnderstoodunderstood, in these Propositions which followe.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… callings? Would not ſuch idleneſſe be Sathans illuſion? Yes ſurely; for no precept rightly vnderſtoodunderstood, contradicts another. God that workes for vs, will yet haue vs worke with him …
With rule
… callings? Would not ſuch idleneſſe be Sathans illuſion? Yes ſurely; for no precept rightly vnderſtoodunderstood, contradicts another. God that workes for vs, will yet haue vs worke with him …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which he ſaith was his body: nowe if this is my body be properlie vnderſtoodunderstood, Chriſt had one body whiche gaue, and another whiche was giuen. But that is …
With rule
… which he ſaith was his body: nowe if this is my body be properlie vnderſtoodunderstood, Chriſt had one body whiche gaue, and another whiche was giuen. But that is …
Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
… bondage vnto feare, but the ſpirit of adoption. Which by the contrarie, may be vnderſtoodunderstood, to comprehend freedome and libertie. According to the ſaying of of the Apoſtle, Where …
With rule
… bondage vnto feare, but the ſpirit of adoption. Which by the contrarie, may be vnderſtoodunderstood, to comprehend freedome and libertie. According to the ſaying of of the Apoſtle, Where …
John Forbes · Letter to Merchants · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his preſence, and ſpeaketh vnto men, in ſuch manner of ſpeech, as may be vnderſtoodunderstood. For ſo he appeared to the Prophets. Wherefore that which wee read in Deuteronomy …
With rule
… his preſence, and ſpeaketh vnto men, in ſuch manner of ſpeech, as may be vnderſtoodunderstood. For ſo he appeared to the Prophets. Wherefore that which wee read in Deuteronomy …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 231 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons Upon John 1 A15738

Printed
… Wherefore is it propounded, and repeated, but that it might be vnderſtoodunderstood, and remembred? VnderſtoodUnderstood, that no hereticks deceiue vs; remembred, that our hearts faynt not: Hee, that is …
With rule
… Wherefore is it propounded, and repeated, but that it might be vnderſtoodunderstood, and remembred? VnderſtoodUnderstood, that no hereticks deceiue vs; remembred, that our hearts faynt not: Hee, that is …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 92 · Open in the reader