Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10094 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aesopsaesop's

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

Puritas changed it: 130 times in 97 works
Consistency: 92.2% (130 of 141)
Reach if approved: ~148 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: aesop's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 141 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (130 changes in 97 works, 92.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 130)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the graue wiſedome of this Realme, & Iudiciall forme of proceeding in like caſe, thē AeſopsAesop's Cato accuſation was againſt the Cocke for crowing in the morning, as the tale …
With rule
… the graue wiſedome of this Realme, & Iudiciall forme of proceeding in like caſe, thē AeſopsAesop's Cato accuſation was againſt the Cocke for crowing in the morning, as the tale …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fables are recorded by your ancient Rabbines & Hebrew doctours, by ſo much worſe then AeſopsAesop's fables: in that theſe are told for truth, but his not ſo: theſe are …
With rule
… fables are recorded by your ancient Rabbines & Hebrew doctours, by ſo much worſe then AeſopsAesop's fables: in that theſe are told for truth, but his not ſo: theſe are …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 353 · Open in the reader
Printed
… waxe flexible into any form es and senses, a dead letter; no better then AesopsAesop's fables, unles she give authority to them. This is the voice of the Antichristian …
With rule
… waxe flexible into any form es and senses, a dead letter; no better then AesopsAesop's fables, unles she give authority to them. This is the voice of the Antichristian …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is: but imagine him to bee really preſent euerie where in his owne ſubſtance. AeſopsAesop's dogg, leauing the true fleſh, did fooliſhlie catch at the vaine ſhaddowe of the …
With rule
… is: but imagine him to bee really preſent euerie where in his owne ſubſtance. AeſopsAesop's dogg, leauing the true fleſh, did fooliſhlie catch at the vaine ſhaddowe of the …
Girolamo Zanchi · Confession of the Christian Religion · p. 418 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the autority of the Church they would be of no more value then AesopsAesop's fables. And lastly, that the people are permitted to read the Bible was the …
With rule
… by the autority of the Church they would be of no more value then AesopsAesop's fables. And lastly, that the people are permitted to read the Bible was the …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
He used to compare the Hereticks and Schismaticks of his time to AesopsAesop's Dog, that lost the substance of Religion, whilst they gaped too earnestly after the …
With rule
He used to compare the Hereticks and Schismaticks of his time to AesopsAesop's Dog, that lost the substance of Religion, whilst they gaped too earnestly after the …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot think they are any thing elſe than Dreams and Fables, no better then AeſopsAesop's; you may meet with ſeveral Catalogues of them in Proteſtant Writers. As their St …
With rule
… cannot think they are any thing elſe than Dreams and Fables, no better then AeſopsAesop's; you may meet with ſeveral Catalogues of them in Proteſtant Writers. As their St …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
Firſt, The Outcry of AeſopsAesop's Shepherd-Boy was only, [Joci gratià,] a falſe Holloe for Sport-ſake, a Boyiſh …
With rule
Firſt, The Outcry of AeſopsAesop's Shepherd-Boy was only, [Joci gratià,] a falſe Holloe for Sport-ſake, a Boyiſh …
Christopher Ness · The Devils Patriarch · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… his learning, or make greater shew with a little, decking and pruning himselfe, like AeSOPSAesop's Iay, or HORACE his chough, with borrowed feathers, than in this matter of the …
With rule
… his learning, or make greater shew with a little, decking and pruning himselfe, like AeSOPSAesop's Iay, or HORACE his chough, with borrowed feathers, than in this matter of the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 5 · Open in the reader