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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5843 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvillyamwillyam

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

Puritas changed it
19 times in 4 works
Consistency
100% (19 of 19)
Reach if approved
~20 places (estimated)
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Disagrees: william
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
19 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19 changes in 4 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (6 of 19)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Peter Payne / VvillyamWillyam taylour / VvillyamWillyam Vvhyght and Ione his wyfe / Iohan Scut / Iohan Fowlyn / VvillyamWillyam Euerdon / VvillyamWillyam Caleser / Rycharde …ownden / Thomas Bagley / VvillyamWillyam …aundeuyle / Philip Noris / Regnolde Pecok Bisshop …
    With rule
    … Peter Payne / VvillyamWillyam taylour / VvillyamWillyam Vvhyght and Ione his wyfe / Iohan Scut / Iohan Fowlyn / VvillyamWillyam Euerdon / VvillyamWillyam Caleser / Rycharde …ownden / Thomas Bagley / VvillyamWillyam …aundeuyle / Philip Noris / Regnolde Pecok Bisshop …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Imprinted at London by VVillyamWillyam Powell, dwelling in Fletestrete, at the signe of the George, nere to Sainct Dunstons …
    With rule
    Imprinted at London by VVillyamWillyam Powell, dwelling in Fletestrete, at the signe of the George, nere to Sainct Dunstons …

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ☞ An answere vnto Sir Thomas Mores dialoge made by VvillyamWillyam Tindale.
    With rule
    ☞ An answere vnto Sir Thomas Mores dialoge made by VvillyamWillyam Tindale.

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … worthye in a prest most cruell death. As was seane for example in syr VvillyamWillyam Vvyghe which was brent for the same at Norwych in the yeare of oure …
    With rule
    … worthye in a prest most cruell death. As was seane for example in syr VvillyamWillyam Vvyghe which was brent for the same at Norwych in the yeare of oure …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … members of sathan. I remembre that .xiiii. yeares ago / the true seruaunt of God VvillyamWillyam Tyndale put into the prent a certen brefe examinacyon of the seyd lorde Cobham …
    With rule
    … members of sathan. I remembre that .xiiii. yeares ago / the true seruaunt of God VvillyamWillyam Tyndale put into the prent a certen brefe examinacyon of the seyd lorde Cobham …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Herolde / subduynge all this lande to the Normāny…-who procured the deathe of kynge VvillyamWillyam Rufus / and caused kynge Steuen to be throwne in preson: Vvho trobled kyng Henry …
    With rule
    … Herolde / subduynge all this lande to the Normāny…-who procured the deathe of kynge VvillyamWillyam Rufus / and caused kynge Steuen to be throwne in preson: Vvho trobled kyng Henry …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · 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.