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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #53052 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

quhenwhen

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
661 times in 15 works
Consistency
100% (661 of 661)
Reach if approved
~890 places (estimated)
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Agrees: when
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
847 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (661 changes in 15 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 661)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    QuhenWhen the play is best, it is best to leave.
    With rule
    QuhenWhen the play is best, it is best to leave.

    David Fergusson · Scottish Proverbs · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Contra Fauſtum Manicheum, Lib. 28. Cap. 2. e. And in the ſame buke he ſayis. Cap. 4. quhenwhen the Apoſtle Paule, efter the Aſcenſione of the Lorde, was callit of the Heauin …
    With rule
    … Contra Fauſtum Manicheum, Lib. 28. Cap. 2. e. And in the ſame buke he ſayis. Cap. 4. quhenwhen the Apoſtle Paule, efter the Aſcenſione of the Lorde, was callit of the Heauin …

    John Davidson · Answer to the Tractive by Master Kennedy · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is offered for thaim, hidderto Augustine. He writtis in ane vther place say and, quhenwhen the Sacrifice of the altare or almous is offered for the dede Quhilk war …
    With rule
    … is offered for thaim, hidderto Augustine. He writtis in ane vther place say and, quhenwhen the Sacrifice of the altare or almous is offered for the dede Quhilk war …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and intollerable paine. Thairfoir, quhenwhen this kinde of peace proceidis from knawledge, that is, quhenwhen man hes asuir warrand of the word of God for that quhilk he dois …
    With rule
    … and intollerable paine. Thairfoir, quhenwhen this kinde of peace proceidis from knawledge, that is, quhenwhen man hes asuir warrand of the word of God for that quhilk he dois …

    Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    In Thrace, quhenwhen ony Chylde be borne
    With rule
    In Thrace, quhenwhen ony Chylde be borne

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    QuhenWhen he in Carthage did arryue,
    With rule
    QuhenWhen he in Carthage did arryue,

    David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    QuhenWhen thow sall call▪ I sall the heir,
    With rule
    QuhenWhen thow sall call▪ I sall the heir,

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    QuhenWhen it is tynt quhairin he pat his traiſt:
    With rule
    QuhenWhen it is tynt quhairin he pat his traiſt:

    John Davidson · Brief Commendation of Uprightness · 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.