Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6079 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvhaleswhales

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

Puritas changed it: 9 times in 5 works
Consistency: 100% (9 of 9)
Reach if approved: ~9 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: whales
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 9 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9 changes in 5 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (6 of 9)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Ioppe: hopeles to con…ert Nineue, vntyll he had been 3 dayes & 3 nightes in the VVhalesWhales belly as Chriſt shoulde be in the belly of the Earth. SIMON Bar Ionas …
With rule
… Ioppe: hopeles to con…ert Nineue, vntyll he had been 3 dayes & 3 nightes in the VVhalesWhales belly as Chriſt shoulde be in the belly of the Earth. SIMON Bar Ionas …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpake: Pſ. 139, But that Hyperbole cannot be applyed hither. Like vnto that is the vvhaleswhales belly: a Sheol to Ionas: or the graue. But in ful privation hence it …
With rule
… ſpake: Pſ. 139, But that Hyperbole cannot be applyed hither. Like vnto that is the vvhaleswhales belly: a Sheol to Ionas: or the graue. But in ful privation hence it …
Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · Open in the reader
Printed
… the day knewe them not, nor the Horizon of the Ocean that beareth vp VVhalesWhales. But as the Egyptian Greekes folowed the old Egyptians and Chaldeans, that faygned yeeres …
With rule
… the day knewe them not, nor the Horizon of the Ocean that beareth vp VVhalesWhales. But as the Egyptian Greekes folowed the old Egyptians and Chaldeans, that faygned yeeres …
Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Waters, ver. 14. Thou breakest the heads of the Leviathan in peices. By VVhalesWhales (or Crocodiles as Ezek. 29.3.) The Grandees and Captains of Pharaoh are understood; who persecuted …
With rule
… in the Waters, ver. 14. Thou breakest the heads of the Leviathan in peices. By VVhalesWhales (or Crocodiles as Ezek. 29.3.) The Grandees and Captains of Pharaoh are understood; who persecuted …
Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to humble our ſelues. Beſides this, we deſerue to be ſwallowed vp of the VVhalesWhales and too haue the ſea too ouerwhelme the whole earth, and ſo it ſhould …
With rule
… to humble our ſelues. Beſides this, we deſerue to be ſwallowed vp of the VVhalesWhales and too haue the ſea too ouerwhelme the whole earth, and ſo it ſhould …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 800 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then that God hath ſhewed expreſly, that wee ſhall always be ouercome by the VVhalesWhales, and that therfore our pryde is to fond: and ſpecially that when we become …
With rule
… then that God hath ſhewed expreſly, that wee ſhall always be ouercome by the VVhalesWhales, and that therfore our pryde is to fond: and ſpecially that when we become …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 800 · 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.