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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10302 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

isaaksisaac's

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

Puritas changed it
105 times in 59 works
Consistency
98.1% (105 of 107)
Reach if approved
~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: isaac's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
107 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (105 changes in 59 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 105)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … readily and freely any thing they have on him: they will part with their IſaaksIsaac's, their deareſt things, with Limbs, &c. Rutherford that man of God, wiſh'd every limb …
    With rule
    … readily and freely any thing they have on him: they will part with their IſaaksIsaac's, their deareſt things, with Limbs, &c. Rutherford that man of God, wiſh'd every limb …

    Lewis Stuckley · A Gospel Glass · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … off God; a profane man: vvho ſold his birthright for a meſs of Pottage. IſaaksIsaac's name is laughter; or gladnes; the Ioy of the vvorld. Iacob in name is …
    With rule
    … off God; a profane man: vvho ſold his birthright for a meſs of Pottage. IſaaksIsaac's name is laughter; or gladnes; the Ioy of the vvorld. Iacob in name is …

    Hugh Broughton · Our Lords Family · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the ſame cōſideration one to another, as if it agree with Iacob to be IſaaksIsaac's father, it muſt diſagree with Iſaak to be ſo, this it hath from the …
    With rule
    … the ſame cōſideration one to another, as if it agree with Iacob to be IſaaksIsaac's father, it muſt diſagree with Iſaak to be ſo, this it hath from the …

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … spring-water, for so she vnderstood him, and so is this word vsed, Gen. 26. 19. IsaaksIsaac's seruants digged in Gerar a Well of liuing water, yet thereby) as by a …
    With rule
    … spring-water, for so she vnderstood him, and so is this word vsed, Gen. 26. 19. IsaaksIsaac's seruants digged in Gerar a Well of liuing water, yet thereby) as by a …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … this malicious man scattereth his tares. In Abrahams house shal be an Ismael; in IsaaksIsaac's, an Esau; in the Arke, a cursed Cham; in Christs familie a Iudas. In …
    With rule
    … this malicious man scattereth his tares. In Abrahams house shal be an Ismael; in IsaaksIsaac's, an Esau; in the Arke, a cursed Cham; in Christs familie a Iudas. In …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … on him. Abraham trusted in God, when he preferred the commandement of God before IsaaksIsaac's life: so if thou preferrest the pleasing of God before thy chiefe ioy, and …
    With rule
    … on him. Abraham trusted in God, when he preferred the commandement of God before IsaaksIsaac's life: so if thou preferrest the pleasing of God before thy chiefe ioy, and …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … afflict Iſaak long before ether was born. Iewes & Gentiles hold that Iſmaels mocking of IſaaksIsaac's is the beginning: which ſome referre Iewlike to IſaaksIsaac's birth: ſo the promeſſe that …
    With rule
    … afflict Iſaak long before ether was born. Iewes & Gentiles hold that Iſmaels mocking of IſaaksIsaac's is the beginning: which ſome referre Iewlike to IſaaksIsaac's birth: ſo the promeſſe that …

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

  8. Printed
    … to better my selfe. For things spirituall I know you to be of holy IsaaksIsaac's diet, who longed not so much for curious and dainty meate, as for sauory …
    With rule
    … to better my selfe. For things spirituall I know you to be of holy IsaaksIsaac's diet, who longed not so much for curious and dainty meate, as for sauory …

    William Burton · Ten Sermons Upon Matthew 6:1-4 · 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.