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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5884 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vverwer

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

Puritas changed it
40 times in 17 works
Consistency
100% (40 of 40)
Reach if approved
~42 places (estimated)
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No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
40 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (40 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 40)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … reaſon to ſuch who vvondred … should ſpend ſo much time in reading theſe vvho vverwer… but pagans, that he purpoſed to dedicat all theſe …evvels vvhich he borrovved from …
    With rule
    … reaſon to ſuch who vvondred … should ſpend ſo much time in reading theſe vvho vverwer… but pagans, that he purpoſed to dedicat all theſe …evvels vvhich he borrovved from …

    Robert Flemming · The Fulfilling of the Scripture · p. 262 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as might be. And this … diuers of the Doctors many times into such …, who vverwer either altogether ignorant, or but meanly seen in the tongs, that they knew not …
    With rule
    … as might be. And this … diuers of the Doctors many times into such …, who vverwer either altogether ignorant, or but meanly seen in the tongs, that they knew not …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2 And I ſaw, as it vverwer, a glaſſie ſea, mingled with fire, and thē that had gotten victory of the …
    With rule
    2 And I ſaw, as it vverwer, a glaſſie ſea, mingled with fire, and thē that had gotten victory of the …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … The ſecond is by vvord or traditiō. The third is, by letter, as it vverwer from him. In the third place he ſets down the Hereſie which falſe teachers …
    With rule
    … The ſecond is by vvord or traditiō. The third is, by letter, as it vverwer from him. In the third place he ſets down the Hereſie which falſe teachers …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … argumêts of an other much lōger discourse. For first his cōming hither as it vverwer in a maske, bewraies a strange melancholik nature in himself: who delights to make …
    With rule
    … argumêts of an other much lōger discourse. For first his cōming hither as it vverwer in a maske, bewraies a strange melancholik nature in himself: who delights to make …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … aliue? And hovve shall vve be able to ſaye, that they, vvhich are dead, vverwer helped and eaſed, afore the euill came that folovved vp on their death: vvhan …
    With rule
    … aliue? And hovve shall vve be able to ſaye, that they, vvhich are dead, vverwer helped and eaſed, afore the euill came that folovved vp on their death: vvhan …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Hope of the Faithful · p. 227 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Before the birth of CHRIST. 4 theſe Saduces come to extremity. Dan. 8. The godly vvho vverwer…egrave; contrary to theſe, vvho ſaid ſtyl, God marketh, hath all vvritten in a …
    With rule
    … Before the birth of CHRIST. 4 theſe Saduces come to extremity. Dan. 8. The godly vvho vverwer…egrave; contrary to theſe, vvho ſaid ſtyl, God marketh, hath all vvritten in a …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … bot sitting vvas the ordinarie gesture at all relligious Feasts. Put the cace it vverwer certaine that they stood at the Paschall supper even to the captivitie, vvhich is …
    With rule
    … bot sitting vvas the ordinarie gesture at all relligious Feasts. Put the cace it vverwer certaine that they stood at the Paschall supper even to the captivitie, vvhich is …

    David Calderwood · A Solution of Doctor Resolutus Resolutions for Kneeling · p. 49 · 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.