Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6076 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvesternwestern

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

Puritas changed it: 15 times in 11 works
Consistency: 100% (15 of 15)
Reach if approved: ~16 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: western
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 11 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 15)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that you talk of. This was the ſenſe of the Eaſtern, and of the VVeſternWestern part of the world. I ſhall not anſwer you with what Ariſtotle and Cicero …
With rule
… that you talk of. This was the ſenſe of the Eaſtern, and of the VVeſternWestern part of the world. I ſhall not anſwer you with what Ariſtotle and Cicero …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
More orient in yon VVesternWestern Cloud that draws
With rule
More orient in yon VVesternWestern Cloud that draws
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… for about 100 years after, and then the Inroades of the Barbarous Nations upon the VVeſternWestern Empire in the four firſt Trumpets breaking the Empire, [to prepare for the ten …
With rule
… for about 100 years after, and then the Inroades of the Barbarous Nations upon the VVeſternWestern Empire in the four firſt Trumpets breaking the Empire, [to prepare for the ten …
William Sherwin · The True News of the Good New World Shortly to Come · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
Knowes VVeſternWestern Iſles, Chriſtophers, Barbadoes;
With rule
Knowes VVeſternWestern Iſles, Chriſtophers, Barbadoes;
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then did the name of the Roman Provinces remayn in the Eaſtern countries: & the VVeſternWestern were by a common name caled Latin; as appeareth by Zonaras, Nicetas, Gregoras, and …
With rule
… then did the name of the Roman Provinces remayn in the Eaſtern countries: & the VVeſternWestern were by a common name caled Latin; as appeareth by Zonaras, Nicetas, Gregoras, and …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 564 · Open in the reader
Printed
… every parcell, from the begining to the End: & called thither all kindes of Faſtern & vveſternwestern opening ſtil vvhere they erred, euen by them ſelves: carying half a skore of …
With rule
… every parcell, from the begining to the End: & called thither all kindes of Faſtern & vveſternwestern opening ſtil vvhere they erred, euen by them ſelves: carying half a skore of …
Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · Open in the reader
Printed
… they being the Majority, are not to be believed before the Pope and his VVesternWestern Councils.
With rule
… they being the Majority, are not to be believed before the Pope and his VVesternWestern Councils.
Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 519 · Open in the reader
Printed
… main Purpoſe: 1. That this other Beaſt muſt be the whole prophetick Office of the VVeſternWestern and Eaſtern Roman Empire under its Superiors, or Hierarchy, ſo far as it was …
With rule
… main Purpoſe: 1. That this other Beaſt muſt be the whole prophetick Office of the VVeſternWestern and Eaſtern Roman Empire under its Superiors, or Hierarchy, ſo far as it was …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 86 · 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.