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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10091 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

achansachan's

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

Puritas changed it
518 times in 271 works
Consistency
99.2% (518 of 522)
Reach if approved
~548 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: acha's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
522 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (518 changes in 271 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 518)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Iuda, which Aſa held. In the ſame tenour of number of 3000. ſouldiers Ioſ. 7. for AchansAchan's theft, even thirty ſix were ſlaine: thriſe twelue. And after vengeance vpon Achan twelue …
    With rule
    … Iuda, which Aſa held. In the ſame tenour of number of 3000. ſouldiers Ioſ. 7. for AchansAchan's theft, even thirty ſix were ſlaine: thriſe twelue. And after vengeance vpon Achan twelue …

    Hugh Broughton · An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … full of grauell, and S…ch…ms whoredome will end with a sword, and AchansAchan's Baby lonish garment will cost him his hart blood. Farre otherwise is the condition …
    With rule
    … full of grauell, and S…ch…ms whoredome will end with a sword, and AchansAchan's Baby lonish garment will cost him his hart blood. Farre otherwise is the condition …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 808 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of having a mouth like a Dragon, of the gift of dissembling, of enioying AchansAchan's wedge, of base thinking & speaking of the Prelates heretofore, of being now neare a …
    With rule
    … of having a mouth like a Dragon, of the gift of dissembling, of enioying AchansAchan's wedge, of base thinking & speaking of the Prelates heretofore, of being now neare a …

    Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thee up, wherefore liest thou th… upon thy face? Israel hath sinned.] Iosh. 7.20.21. Twas AchansAchan's privie theft of execrable goods that had troubled all Israel; till that be expiated …
    With rule
    … thee up, wherefore liest thou th… upon thy face? Israel hath sinned.] Iosh. 7.20.21. Twas AchansAchan's privie theft of execrable goods that had troubled all Israel; till that be expiated …

    William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a naturally pleasing good thing, but belonging to another, or not to him, as AchansAchan's wedg of gold: His affection of love, and appetite is inordinately caryed unto it …
    With rule
    … a naturally pleasing good thing, but belonging to another, or not to him, as AchansAchan's wedg of gold: His affection of love, and appetite is inordinately caryed unto it …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … God hath ſet for a terror before vs: like the piller of ſalte, or AchansAchan's ſepulchre to ſpeake to vs. Take heed by thoſe, when I haue warned you …
    With rule
    … God hath ſet for a terror before vs: like the piller of ſalte, or AchansAchan's ſepulchre to ſpeake to vs. Take heed by thoſe, when I haue warned you …

    Henry Smith · The Fall of King Nebuchadnezzar · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by a free confession vnto men, to glorifie God, as may be seene in AchansAchan's example. Gehazi, not confessing his sinne vpon examination of his Master, to whom God …
    With rule
    … by a free confession vnto men, to glorifie God, as may be seene in AchansAchan's example. Gehazi, not confessing his sinne vpon examination of his Master, to whom God …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … kind of robberie. 3. sacriledge, the stealing of things consecrated to holy things; which was AchansAchan's case, Ios. 7.4. and wanton theft, when one stealeth not of necessitie to satisfie his …
    With rule
    … kind of robberie. 3. sacriledge, the stealing of things consecrated to holy things; which was AchansAchan's case, Ios. 7.4. and wanton theft, when one stealeth not of necessitie to satisfie his …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · p. 73 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

the Time of Finding A33242

  • Printed
    5. That the Lord in wrath will remember mercie, 1. In finding out and puniſhing ACHANSACHAN'S and TROƲBLERS, that none (innocent) may ſuffer for the rebellion and Apoſtacie of others …
    With rule
    5. That the Lord in wrath will remember mercie, 1. In finding out and puniſhing ACHANSACHAN'S and TROƲBLERS, that none (innocent) may ſuffer for the rebellion and Apoſtacie of others …

    John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 116 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

  • Printed
    Obſerve 7 AChansAchan's eye was it that drew him to take of the accurſed thing, and Davids …
    With rule
    Obſerve 7 AChansAchan's eye was it that drew him to take of the accurſed thing, and Davids …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 89 · Open in the reader