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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #5944 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvormsworms

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

Puritas changed it
15 times in 14 works
Consistency
100% (15 of 15)
Reach if approved
~16 places (estimated)
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Agrees: worms
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
15 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (15 changes in 14 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 15)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Doth not the Bier stand ready to carry thee to the Grave? and the VVormsWorms wait to feed upon thy face and heart? What if thy Pulse must beat …
    With rule
    … Doth not the Bier stand ready to carry thee to the Grave? and the VVormsWorms wait to feed upon thy face and heart? What if thy Pulse must beat …

    Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 840 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and that moſt unnaturally too: (For naturally we are Thankful even unto our fellow VVormsWorms.) Yea, moſt univerſally alſo. For, Thankfulneſs, is, in a well explained ſenſe, all our …
    With rule
    … and that moſt unnaturally too: (For naturally we are Thankful even unto our fellow VVormsWorms.) Yea, moſt univerſally alſo. For, Thankfulneſs, is, in a well explained ſenſe, all our …

    Daniel Burgess · Mans Whole Duty and Gods Wonderful Entreaty · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Fifthly, That in ſome places VVormsWorms are bred and live in the Snow of a fiery colour.
    With rule
    Fifthly, That in ſome places VVormsWorms are bred and live in the Snow of a fiery colour.

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 472 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … And every thing kept beyond its Appointment is like Manna so kept, it breeds VVormsWorms and stinketh. These things are manifest from the consideration of all things that God …
    With rule
    … And every thing kept beyond its Appointment is like Manna so kept, it breeds VVormsWorms and stinketh. These things are manifest from the consideration of all things that God …

    John Owen · Exposition of Hebrews 6-10 · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … find out a way for the afflicting his Enemies, what ſtinging Adders, and gnawing VVormsWorms, and Chains of Darkneſs, and Lakes of Brimſtone doth he provide.
    With rule
    … find out a way for the afflicting his Enemies, what ſtinging Adders, and gnawing VVormsWorms, and Chains of Darkneſs, and Lakes of Brimſtone doth he provide.

    George Swinnock · The Sinners Last Sentence · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſent us to hell, as our own place. We are at beſt but as VVormsWorms and duplicate page duplicate page Graſs-hoppers, compared with God; and did a King ever build a Palace …
    With rule
    … ſent us to hell, as our own place. We are at beſt but as VVormsWorms and duplicate page duplicate page Graſs-hoppers, compared with God; and did a King ever build a Palace …

    Samuel Tomlyns · The Faith of the Saints as to a Future House · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … so taken up with Decking a Body which is very shortly to feed the VVormsWorms, that her Soul which is to live through Eternal Ages, cannot be well Provided …
    With rule
    … so taken up with Decking a Body which is very shortly to feed the VVormsWorms, that her Soul which is to live through Eternal Ages, cannot be well Provided …

    Cotton Mather · Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in quirks of Latin diſtinctions, being as ſilk vvormsworms thred vnlavvfull, as from vnclean vvormsworms. The vniuerſall concent of a tongue ſpred ouer many nations, & the Chiefeſt and moſt …
    With rule
    … in quirks of Latin diſtinctions, being as ſilk vvormsworms thred vnlavvfull, as from vnclean vvormsworms. The vniuerſall concent of a tongue ſpred ouer many nations, & the Chiefeſt and moſt …

    Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · p. 15 · 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.