Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5902 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tvventytwenty

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

Puritas changed it: 43 times in 24 works
Consistency: 100% (43 of 43)
Reach if approved: ~45 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: twenty
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 43 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (43 changes in 24 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 43)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Judaea, and hearing that Judas vvas encamped at Bethzeth, he marched against him vvith tvventytwenty thousand footmen, and tvvo thousand horsemen. Judas had not in all above tvvo thousand …
With rule
… Judaea, and hearing that Judas vvas encamped at Bethzeth, he marched against him vvith tvventytwenty thousand footmen, and tvvo thousand horsemen. Judas had not in all above tvvo thousand …
Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his fellow-Emperour vvas also exceeding cruel, and outragious against the Christians. For vvhen tvventytwenty thousand of them vvere met together in a Temple at Nicomedia upon a solemne …
With rule
… his fellow-Emperour vvas also exceeding cruel, and outragious against the Christians. For vvhen tvventytwenty thousand of them vvere met together in a Temple at Nicomedia upon a solemne …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at Moſes his command: for Paul 1 Cor. 10: ver. 8. ſayes there died of the plague tvventytwenty three thouſand, and here vve finde there fell in all tvventytwenty foure thouſand. Againe …
With rule
… at Moſes his command: for Paul 1 Cor. 10: ver. 8. ſayes there died of the plague tvventytwenty three thouſand, and here vve finde there fell in all tvventytwenty foure thouſand. Againe …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 414 · Open in the reader
Printed
… twentie. Some will not ſticke to haue tvventytwenty coats, tvventie houſes, tvventie farmes, yea tvventytwenty Lordſhippes, and yet goe by a poore perſon, vvhome they ſee in great diſtreſſe …
With rule
… twentie. Some will not ſticke to haue tvventytwenty coats, tvventie houſes, tvventie farmes, yea tvventytwenty Lordſhippes, and yet goe by a poore perſon, vvhome they ſee in great diſtreſſe …
Henry Smith · The Poor Mans Tears Opened · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall breifly give you ſome grounds for vvhat I ſay, ſuch as for this tvventytwenty years I have not knovvn vvell hovv to anſvver.
With rule
… ſhall breifly give you ſome grounds for vvhat I ſay, ſuch as for this tvventytwenty years I have not knovvn vvell hovv to anſvver.
Thomas Goodwin · The World to Come · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a raigne: further causing her to borow more loanes of hundred powndes, forty pounds tvventytwenty pounds, and ten poundes of her subiects, then vvere euer payd agayn by a …
With rule
… a raigne: further causing her to borow more loanes of hundred powndes, forty pounds tvventytwenty pounds, and ten poundes of her subiects, then vvere euer payd agayn by a …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… tvventytwenty three, at leaſt let it grieve you, to bee ſo ill requited; a tvventytwenty foure, no, let it not grieve you, for vvhy ſhould you vex your ſelfe …
With rule
… tvventytwenty three, at leaſt let it grieve you, to bee ſo ill requited; a tvventytwenty foure, no, let it not grieve you, for vvhy ſhould you vex your ſelfe …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and sweare by their trothe they finde more edefying in one play, then in tvventytwenty sermons, & yet neuer come at fermō: and as wise as they be, I could …
With rule
… and sweare by their trothe they finde more edefying in one play, then in tvventytwenty sermons, & yet neuer come at fermō: and as wise as they be, I could …
William Burton · A Sermon Preached 21 December 1589 · 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.