Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5819 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvhatwhat

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

Puritas changed it: 8,630 times in 1,105 works
Consistency: 100% (8,630 of 8,630)
Reach if approved: ~9,088 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: what
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,649 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 17 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,630 changes in 1,105 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,630)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But yet to cleare this point ſom… vvhatwhat more, let vs grant this ſayin… to be true, that God vvill not ſau …
With rule
But yet to cleare this point ſom… vvhatwhat more, let vs grant this ſayin… to be true, that God vvill not ſau …
John Forbes · Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4 · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alwayes that the Popish church be no taken for that Catholike or vniuersall church. VVhatWhat then (sayth Bristow) was it the Protestants church whereof Augustine ment? or can you …
With rule
… alwayes that the Popish church be no taken for that Catholike or vniuersall church. VVhatWhat then (sayth Bristow) was it the Protestants church whereof Augustine ment? or can you …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. VVHatWhat doctrine doth the expreſſing of Debters in the plurall number import?
With rule
Q. VVHatWhat doctrine doth the expreſſing of Debters in the plurall number import?
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his pleasant veine anye thing too snappish, the reader is to vvey vvith vvhatwhat kind of ad uersary he deales: namely, vvith the snappishest gentleman, and most bitter …
With rule
… in his pleasant veine anye thing too snappish, the reader is to vvey vvith vvhatwhat kind of ad uersary he deales: namely, vvith the snappishest gentleman, and most bitter …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvatch, 12. I vvil come on thee as a theefe, 13. and thou shalt not knovve vvhatwhat houre I vvill come vpon thee. 14. Thou hast a fevv names in Sardis, 15. vvhich …
With rule
… vvatch, 12. I vvil come on thee as a theefe, 13. and thou shalt not knovve vvhatwhat houre I vvill come vpon thee. 14. Thou hast a fevv names in Sardis, 15. vvhich …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſecond Queſtion. VVhatWhat a priuat faſt is, how it may be beſt deſcribed according to the Scriptures.
With rule
The ſecond Queſtion. VVhatWhat a priuat faſt is, how it may be beſt deſcribed according to the Scriptures.
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my time & studie in that prophane and vnprofitable exercise, to my owne perdition. For vvhatwhat seekes man by that kind▪ of studie? nothing but a name, but a vaine …
With rule
… my time & studie in that prophane and vnprofitable exercise, to my owne perdition. For vvhatwhat seekes man by that kind▪ of studie? nothing but a name, but a vaine …
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. VVhatWhat doth innocencie require?
With rule
Q. VVhatWhat doth innocencie require?
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 35 · 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.