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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #53185 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

quhatwhat

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

Puritas changed it
567 times in 14 works
Consistency
100% (567 of 567)
Reach if approved
~738 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
702 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (567 changes in 14 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 567)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … man, to quhome God hes geuin sa mony giftis & talentis) and rypely considder be quhatwhat way ze mon cū to that end, to the quhilk God hes creatit and …
    With rule
    … man, to quhome God hes geuin sa mony giftis & talentis) and rypely considder be quhatwhat way ze mon cū to that end, to the quhilk God hes creatit and …

    John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Nocht knawing quhē, quhow in quhatwhat place
    With rule
    Nocht knawing quhē, quhow in quhatwhat place

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Squyer (quod scho) quhatwhat is ȝour will▪
    With rule
    Squyer (quod scho) quhatwhat is ȝour will▪

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

  4. Printed
    Of Agarins quhatwhat tung can tell the tryne,
    With rule
    Of Agarins quhatwhat tung can tell the tryne,

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Bot in quhatwhat perrell trow ȝe he was laſt,
    With rule
    Bot in quhatwhat perrell trow ȝe he was laſt,

    John Davidson · Brief Commendation of Uprightness · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    QuhatWhat Devill ails this cruckit carle?
    With rule
    QuhatWhat Devill ails this cruckit carle?

    David Lindsay · A Satire of the Three Estates · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hes bene haldin ſenſyne, to knaw quhatwhat part thay ſulde conſent to, or fra quhatwhat part thay ſall diſſent, in cōtrouerſeis of Religione, without the worde of God, and …
    With rule
    … hes bene haldin ſenſyne, to knaw quhatwhat part thay ſulde conſent to, or fra quhatwhat part thay ſall diſſent, in cōtrouerſeis of Religione, without the worde of God, and …

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

  8. Printed
    QuhatWhat sa they be persewers or defenders,
    With rule
    QuhatWhat sa they be persewers or defenders,

    Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 54 · 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.