Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10337 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

march'dmarched

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

Puritas changed it: 72 times in 47 works
Consistency: 91.1% (72 of 79)
Reach if approved: ~83 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: marched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (72 changes in 47 works, 91.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 72)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and in Valour. When the Government was Ariſtocratical Judah had the firſt port, and march'dmarched at the head of the Tribes. When it was Monarchial, the Kings were chiefly …
With rule
… and in Valour. When the Government was Ariſtocratical Judah had the firſt port, and march'dmarched at the head of the Tribes. When it was Monarchial, the Kings were chiefly …
Benjamin Colman · Discourse in College-Hall 27 March 1722 · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
II. When Prince Rupert march'dmarched with his Army through Lancashire, to York-Fight, where he was overthrown, the Town …
With rule
II. When Prince Rupert march'dmarched with his Army through Lancashire, to York-Fight, where he was overthrown, the Town …
Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them that would make a prey of them. When Juba King of the Moors march'dmarched through the Deſert of Africa, a young man of his Company wounded a Lion …
With rule
… them that would make a prey of them. When Juba King of the Moors march'dmarched through the Deſert of Africa, a young man of his Company wounded a Lion …
Thomas Brooks · A Heavenly Cordial for All that Have had the Plague · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the further. Sure, as stout champions of Truth follow in the rere, as ever march'dmarched in the front. Besides, as one excellently observes, Antiquitas seculi juventus mundi. These times …
With rule
… the further. Sure, as stout champions of Truth follow in the rere, as ever march'dmarched in the front. Besides, as one excellently observes, Antiquitas seculi juventus mundi. These times …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… waies; wherby the Daniſh Bottoms were left on dry ground: which they ſoon perceaving, march'dmarched over Land to Quatbrig on the Severn, built a Fortreſs and winterd there; while …
With rule
… waies; wherby the Daniſh Bottoms were left on dry ground: which they ſoon perceaving, march'dmarched over Land to Quatbrig on the Severn, built a Fortreſs and winterd there; while …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the moſt holy Things, were to be carried upon their Shoulders, though they march'dmarched never ſo far, v. 15. and VII. 9. When the Ark indeed was ſettled in the …
With rule
… and the moſt holy Things, were to be carried upon their Shoulders, though they march'dmarched never ſo far, v. 15. and VII. 9. When the Ark indeed was ſettled in the …
Simon Patrick · Commentary on Numbers · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then on he march'dmarched, in's way he veiw'd old Troy;
With rule
Then on he march'dmarched, in's way he veiw'd old Troy;
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were Welchmen, having Leeks in their Hats, and drunke, and went out diſorderly: They march'dmarched toward Truro with a good part of their horſe; the reſt of their Horſe …
With rule
… were Welchmen, having Leeks in their Hats, and drunke, and went out diſorderly: They march'dmarched toward Truro with a good part of their horſe; the reſt of their Horſe …
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 380 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Militant Christian B20767

Printed
… Persecutions and Sufferings that you shall meet withal. The Captain of our Salvation hath March'dMarched before us, and led the Van, and born the brunt and heat of the …
With rule
… Persecutions and Sufferings that you shall meet withal. The Captain of our Salvation hath March'dMarched before us, and led the Van, and born the brunt and heat of the …
Stephen Coven · The Militant Christian · p. 96 · Open in the reader