Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6087 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvhitakerwhitaker

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

Puritas changed it: 11 times in 9 works
Consistency: 100% (11 of 11)
Reach if approved: ~12 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: whitaker
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 11 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I ſhall not dye but live, and declare the works of God. And Learned VVhitakerWhitaker upon his death-bed, when he was told that Death was approaching, replyed, Vitam …
With rule
… I ſhall not dye but live, and declare the works of God. And Learned VVhitakerWhitaker upon his death-bed, when he was told that Death was approaching, replyed, Vitam …
Owen Stockton · The Best Interest · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and S. Lukes Gospell, may also be called in controuersie. Why? what saith M. VVhitakerWhitaker? Marie, that he can not see by what right that which once was not …
With rule
… and S. Lukes Gospell, may also be called in controuersie. Why? what saith M. VVhitakerWhitaker? Marie, that he can not see by what right that which once was not …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hooper, Bradford, Bullinger, Bez…, Zanchius, Iu…l, Ramus, Vrſinus, Sadeel, Daneus, Pilkington, Fulke, Humfrey, VVhitakerWhitaker, and infinite other, partly dead, and partly yet liuing, whoſe name… I doe not …
With rule
… Hooper, Bradford, Bullinger, Bez…, Zanchius, Iu…l, Ramus, Vrſinus, Sadeel, Daneus, Pilkington, Fulke, Humfrey, VVhitakerWhitaker, and infinite other, partly dead, and partly yet liuing, whoſe name… I doe not …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVhitakerWhitaker 1586
With rule
VVhitakerWhitaker 1586
Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… or not. For performance hereof, let them aſke of their learned Divines, whether Maſter VVhitakerWhitaker hath trulie reported, out of the writings of Peter a Soto a Papiſt of …
With rule
… or not. For performance hereof, let them aſke of their learned Divines, whether Maſter VVhitakerWhitaker hath trulie reported, out of the writings of Peter a Soto a Papiſt of …
Francis Bunny · An Answer to a Popish Libel · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who declared openly, that Priests sinned lesse by committing Adultery, then by marrying wives. VVhitakerWhitaker never had his Catamites, as many of the Popish Priests, Jesuits, Cardinals, yea and …
With rule
… who declared openly, that Priests sinned lesse by committing Adultery, then by marrying wives. VVhitakerWhitaker never had his Catamites, as many of the Popish Priests, Jesuits, Cardinals, yea and …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 817 · Open in the reader
Printed
CHAP. 5. The life of D^r. VVHITAKERWHITAKER.
With rule
CHAP. 5. The life of D^r. VVHITAKERWHITAKER.
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
I ſhall ſhut up this with the judgment of the learned and pious VVhitakerWhitaker, as I ſee him quoted, by Maccovius upon this queſtion.
With rule
I ſhall ſhut up this with the judgment of the learned and pious VVhitakerWhitaker, as I ſee him quoted, by Maccovius upon this queſtion.
Giles Firmin · Questions Between the Conformist and Non-Conformist · p. 38 · 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.