Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10033 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

to'ttoit

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 134 times in 73 works
Consistency: 100% (134 of 134)
Reach if approved: ~141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 134 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (134 changes in 73 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 134)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Because he vows, and stands to'ttoit, that no wines
With rule
Because he vows, and stands to'ttoit, that no wines
James Strong · Feminine Valor Eminently Discovered · Open in the reader
Printed
… juſt the day after the fair; when with an irkſom difficulty they are put to'ttoit to retreive thoſe things, which but a while ago flew fair before them.
With rule
… juſt the day after the fair; when with an irkſom difficulty they are put to'ttoit to retreive thoſe things, which but a while ago flew fair before them.
Caleb Trenchfield · A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the World ſhould have agreeed to it, yet the people would never have conſented to'ttoit. Tho' the Doctors and the People together ſhould have been inclinable to it, yet …
With rule
… the World ſhould have agreeed to it, yet the people would never have conſented to'ttoit. Tho' the Doctors and the People together ſhould have been inclinable to it, yet …
Jacques Abbadie · Vindication of the Truth of the Christian Religion · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what to doe with his body. Hee would doe much mischiefe, if he liue's to'ttoit: but there is great hope, that he wil kil himselfe before-hand. If you …
With rule
… what to doe with his body. Hee would doe much mischiefe, if he liue's to'ttoit: but there is great hope, that he wil kil himselfe before-hand. If you …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
Would but those Men whose Genius leads them to'ttoit,
With rule
Would but those Men whose Genius leads them to'ttoit,
John Bunyan · Scriptural Poems · Open in the reader
Printed
That we ſhould fall down to'ttoit, though in the ſtreet
With rule
That we ſhould fall down to'ttoit, though in the ſtreet
John Griffith · Some Prison Meditations · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
Will's hard put to'ttoit, nay, had loſt the day quite,
With rule
Will's hard put to'ttoit, nay, had loſt the day quite,
Benjamin Keach · The Glorious Lover · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now you'l have all: Look to'ttoit: So for th they'r driven
With rule
Now you'l have all: Look to'ttoit: So for th they'r driven
Charles Morton · Meditations on the History in Exodus · p. 12 · 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.