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Waiting for reviewvv → wCandidate #6097 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvilliamswilliams

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

Puritas changed it
51 times in 24 works
Consistency
100% (51 of 51)
Reach if approved
~54 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: williams
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
51 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (51 changes in 24 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 51)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Prayer, and Preaching; the latter much inlarged by the biſhop of Norwich, and biſhop VVilliamsWilliams.
    With rule
    … Prayer, and Preaching; the latter much inlarged by the biſhop of Norwich, and biſhop VVilliamsWilliams.

    John Shower · Gods Thoughts and Ways Above Ours · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Mr. Roger VVilliamsWilliams his Letter unto Mr. VVinthrop, concerning Samuel Gorton.
    With rule
    Mr. Roger VVilliamsWilliams his Letter unto Mr. VVinthrop, concerning Samuel Gorton.

    Edward Winslow · The Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    If any domineering Souldiers, or others, upon this falſe ſurmiſe, of Duke VVilliamsWilliams right to the Crown and Realm of England by meer conqueſt; ſhall henceforth preſume …
    With rule
    If any domineering Souldiers, or others, upon this falſe ſurmiſe, of Duke VVilliamsWilliams right to the Crown and Realm of England by meer conqueſt; ſhall henceforth preſume …

    William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 3 · p. 388 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Caſtle; And Gods good providence ſo ordered it, that Major Generall Laughorn, Sir Trevor VVilliamsWilliams and Colonell Keyrl and a party ſent from Briſtol from Major Generall Skippon, came …
    With rule
    … Caſtle; And Gods good providence ſo ordered it, that Major Generall Laughorn, Sir Trevor VVilliamsWilliams and Colonell Keyrl and a party ſent from Briſtol from Major Generall Skippon, came …

    John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 370 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    And Mr. VVilliamsWilliams himself in his Sermon on Psal. xci.1. describing carnal Men, by which He means …
    With rule
    And Mr. VVilliamsWilliams himself in his Sermon on Psal. xci.1. describing carnal Men, by which He means …

    Jonathan Edwards · Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    VVilliam VVilliamsWilliams
    With rule
    VVilliam VVilliamsWilliams

    William Whittingham · Brief Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort · p. XXVI · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … VVill. Young. arm. ut prius 21 Edw. Cornwal, ar. ut prius 22 VVil. Gratewood, a. 23 Th. VVilliamsWilliams, ar. Willaston Sa. 3 Nags-heads erased, Ermin. 24 Carolus Fox, arm. Chain ham Ar. a …
    With rule
    … VVill. Young. arm. ut prius 21 Edw. Cornwal, ar. ut prius 22 VVil. Gratewood, a. 23 Th. VVilliamsWilliams, ar. Willaston Sa. 3 Nags-heads erased, Ermin. 24 Carolus Fox, arm. Chain ham Ar. a …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    LONDON, Printed for John VVilliamsWilliams, in Croſs-Key-Court in Little Brittain, 1675
    With rule
    LONDON, Printed for John VVilliamsWilliams, in Croſs-Key-Court in Little Brittain, 1675

    William Jeffery · The Lawfulness of Tithes · 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.