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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #782 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vpsideupside

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
256 times in 127 works
Consistency
99.2% (256 of 258)
Reach if approved
~271 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: upside
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
258 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (256 changes in 127 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 256)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … transgresse the will of God, so they doe what they can to turne all vpsideupside downe. Now then coufusion, & disorder is onely in respect of the deuill and his …
    With rule
    … transgresse the will of God, so they doe what they can to turne all vpsideupside downe. Now then coufusion, & disorder is onely in respect of the deuill and his …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 242 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … strings in a knot. They haue no dwelling but their boats, which they turne vpsideupside downe, and vnder them lay themselues along on the bare ground. They eat their …
    With rule
    … strings in a knot. They haue no dwelling but their boats, which they turne vpsideupside downe, and vnder them lay themselues along on the bare ground. They eat their …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 626 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vassall, and bondslaue? This is preposterous geare, when Gods ordinance is turned topsie turuie, vpsideupside downe. It is time these phantasticall fellowes were looked to in time, that wil …
    With rule
    … vassall, and bondslaue? This is preposterous geare, when Gods ordinance is turned topsie turuie, vpsideupside downe. It is time these phantasticall fellowes were looked to in time, that wil …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … beholding of peace, with the eies: But contrariwise Babilon is called confusion, all turned vpsideupside down, trouble, wauering of conscience. And therefore the citizens thereof are compared to waues …
    With rule
    … beholding of peace, with the eies: But contrariwise Babilon is called confusion, all turned vpsideupside down, trouble, wauering of conscience. And therefore the citizens thereof are compared to waues …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … when the face of all things shal be changed, and things shall be turned vpsideupside downe, we shall know the vse of this doctrine to be aboue gold and …
    With rule
    … when the face of all things shal be changed, and things shall be turned vpsideupside downe, we shall know the vse of this doctrine to be aboue gold and …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 570 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … my strong rock, my buckler, & my sheild; and then though the world suld turne vpsideupside down; yet sall I be in perpetuall securitie. Be on my side, and neither …
    With rule
    … my strong rock, my buckler, & my sheild; and then though the world suld turne vpsideupside down; yet sall I be in perpetuall securitie. Be on my side, and neither …

    Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in fauour of the Iewes, and in hatred of Chriſtians, the foundations were turned vpſideupside downe, by terrible fire burſting violently out of the earth. And Galatinus the Monke …
    With rule
    … in fauour of the Iewes, and in hatred of Chriſtians, the foundations were turned vpſideupside downe, by terrible fire burſting violently out of the earth. And Galatinus the Monke …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … which shineth forth in the whole world and in all the partes thereof, turned vpsideupside downe in man who is the Litle World, by the disobedience of the Body …
    With rule
    … which shineth forth in the whole world and in all the partes thereof, turned vpsideupside downe in man who is the Litle World, by the disobedience of the Body …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 293 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.