Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #519 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vncleuncle

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

Puritas changed it: 354 times in 168 works
Consistency: 100% (354 of 354)
Reach if approved: ~372 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uncle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 354 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (354 changes in 168 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 354)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that he being lame on his feete, could not reſiſt Dauid, as Iſhboſheth his vncleuncle did, (to his great toyle and little preuailing) but liued peaceably in the Kings …
With rule
… that he being lame on his feete, could not reſiſt Dauid, as Iſhboſheth his vncleuncle did, (to his great toyle and little preuailing) but liued peaceably in the Kings …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 535 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obtained of GOD a wonderfull deliuerance to Ardaburius captaine of his armie. When his vncleuncle had ended his life, Ardaburius was sent against a tyrant Iohn, who did vsurpe …
With rule
… obtained of GOD a wonderfull deliuerance to Ardaburius captaine of his armie. When his vncleuncle had ended his life, Ardaburius was sent against a tyrant Iohn, who did vsurpe …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therfore if I were dead, my wife might not lawfully bee married to mine vncleuncle: ſo my wife, if ſhe were a man, might not lawfully marrie her ſiſter …
With rule
… therfore if I were dead, my wife might not lawfully bee married to mine vncleuncle: ſo my wife, if ſhe were a man, might not lawfully marrie her ſiſter …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
As Iacob in y^t way goyng towardes L… ban hys vncleuncle, vowed a vowe, that if God preserued & prospered hym in that iourney, he wolde …
With rule
As Iacob in y^t way goyng towardes L… ban hys vncleuncle, vowed a vowe, that if God preserued & prospered hym in that iourney, he wolde …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… manifeſt inhibition of the lawes of God, that it might be lawfull for the vncleuncle by the father or mother to cōtract matrimony with the brother or ſiſters daughter …
With rule
… manifeſt inhibition of the lawes of God, that it might be lawfull for the vncleuncle by the father or mother to cōtract matrimony with the brother or ſiſters daughter …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 269 · Open in the reader
Printed
… king of Babel had carried Iuda into captiuitie. Cyrus king of Perſia with his vncleuncle Darius King of the Medes, ſuddenly ſlue Balthaſar king of Babel, Dan. 5. and ſo …
With rule
… king of Babel had carried Iuda into captiuitie. Cyrus king of Perſia with his vncleuncle Darius King of the Medes, ſuddenly ſlue Balthaſar king of Babel, Dan. 5. and ſo …
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… venture rashly into the ministery, to tread vpon the holy groūd of God, with vncleuncle…ne f…ete; to handle the holy things of God with vnwashen hands: For …
With rule
… venture rashly into the ministery, to tread vpon the holy groūd of God, with vncleuncle…ne f…ete; to handle the holy things of God with vnwashen hands: For …
William Perkins · The Calling of the Ministry · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the mother her own child: the times are not, as when the Father, the VncleUncle, and the Son haue ſtrouen for a rotten mouſe, and when whole multitudes haue …
With rule
… the mother her own child: the times are not, as when the Father, the VncleUncle, and the Son haue ſtrouen for a rotten mouſe, and when whole multitudes haue …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 297 · 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.