Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vverewere

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

Puritas changed it: 4,643 times in 548 works
Consistency: 100% (4,643 of 4,643)
Reach if approved: ~4,878 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: were
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,643 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,643 changes in 548 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,643)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not manie of them: for they were casten downe in the desart. Now thir vverewere exampls vnto vs, that we suld not couet euill things as they coueted, be …
With rule
… not manie of them: for they were casten downe in the desart. Now thir vverewere exampls vnto vs, that we suld not couet euill things as they coueted, be …
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
The instruments and voyce vverewere, when there had beene before some Sermon of the praysing of God, to stirre …
With rule
The instruments and voyce vverewere, when there had beene before some Sermon of the praysing of God, to stirre …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
… the actes of Iehoakim, and his abhominations whych he did, and CARVED IMAGES THAT VVEREWERE LAID TO HIS CHARGE, BEHOLDE THEY ARE VVRITTEN, &c, these words, carued images laid …
With rule
… the actes of Iehoakim, and his abhominations whych he did, and CARVED IMAGES THAT VVEREWERE LAID TO HIS CHARGE, BEHOLDE THEY ARE VVRITTEN, &c, these words, carued images laid …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other side, Iob, Dauid, Hezekiali, Peter, Zach…us, &c. confessed their faults, sought mercie & vverewere comforted. Their conscienences bring … assured, they wer strong confident and vnremoueable, as app… in …
With rule
… other side, Iob, Dauid, Hezekiali, Peter, Zach…us, &c. confessed their faults, sought mercie & vverewere comforted. Their conscienences bring … assured, they wer strong confident and vnremoueable, as app… in …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… to brynge his false matter… to passe where as he fynde yt chynge … res. VvereWere it not for fayre speche in hypocresye / Sathā shuld neuer apere y^e gloryouse … of …
With rule
… to brynge his false matter… to passe where as he fynde yt chynge … res. VvereWere it not for fayre speche in hypocresye / Sathā shuld neuer apere y^e gloryouse … of …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
… at all Terme-causes, and so, as nothing can passe shufflingly, but (as it vverewere) openly in the Court or at the Table before an honourable and reuerent Session …
With rule
… at all Terme-causes, and so, as nothing can passe shufflingly, but (as it vverewere) openly in the Court or at the Table before an honourable and reuerent Session …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… the belevers there vverewere more in number and of greater graces then ever those vverewere of your company, Act. 11. 21. 26. and 15. 23. and so might vvith more cō sent and authority …
With rule
… the belevers there vverewere more in number and of greater graces then ever those vverewere of your company, Act. 11. 21. 26. and 15. 23. and so might vvith more cō sent and authority …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the morning, yea though vve grovell in our ovvne duſt, & ſtucke faſt as it vverewere in our ovvne durt, yet as Ieremy vve muſt cry vnto him out of …
With rule
… the morning, yea though vve grovell in our ovvne duſt, & ſtucke faſt as it vverewere in our ovvne durt, yet as Ieremy vve muſt cry vnto him out of …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 53 · 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.