Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10386 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

platoesplato's

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

Puritas changed it: 152 times in 97 works
Consistency: 98.0% (152 of 155)
Reach if approved: ~163 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plato's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 155 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (152 changes in 97 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to God only wiſe & good, to an vnſeene and pure place. All that know PlatoesPlato's greek would ſwear the Pēner of this article was ſo far no whit PlatoesPlato's …
With rule
… to God only wiſe & good, to an vnſeene and pure place. All that know PlatoesPlato's greek would ſwear the Pēner of this article was ſo far no whit PlatoesPlato's …
Hugh Broughton · Grounds of Divinity Study · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
The fourth opinion is PlatoesPlato's, who graunteth that God by his prouidence ruleth all things in generall, which afterward …
With rule
The fourth opinion is PlatoesPlato's, who graunteth that God by his prouidence ruleth all things in generall, which afterward …
Arthur Dent · A Platform for the Proof of Gods Providence · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though in ſtead of illiterate Fiſhermen, they had been the Grandees of knowledge, the PlatoesPlato's and Ariſtotles of the world.
With rule
… though in ſtead of illiterate Fiſhermen, they had been the Grandees of knowledge, the PlatoesPlato's and Ariſtotles of the world.
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 416 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as Plato tooke downe Diogenes, trampling upon his rich carpet, and ſaying, I tread PlatoesPlato's pride under my feete: Calcas faſtum, ſed alio faſtu; thou treadeſt upon my pride …
With rule
… as Plato tooke downe Diogenes, trampling upon his rich carpet, and ſaying, I tread PlatoesPlato's pride under my feete: Calcas faſtum, ſed alio faſtu; thou treadeſt upon my pride …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 894 · Open in the reader
Printed
… workes of men ar contained vnder this place as the wyſe mens ſeynges and PlatoesPlato's and Ariſtotls workes, counſails alſo and deliberations although the neuer take effect.
With rule
… workes of men ar contained vnder this place as the wyſe mens ſeynges and PlatoesPlato's and Ariſtotls workes, counſails alſo and deliberations although the neuer take effect.
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… known qualitie of the person accused, fastens a slaunder upon the accusation: as did PlatoesPlato's with Diogenes, when he heard one accuse him of evill. Some also there are …
With rule
… known qualitie of the person accused, fastens a slaunder upon the accusation: as did PlatoesPlato's with Diogenes, when he heard one accuse him of evill. Some also there are …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peaceable end, that thou shalt neither shame or feare to dye. In a word, PlatoesPlato's Phylosophy in this, is true Diuinitie: that the best meane, and whole summe of …
With rule
… peaceable end, that thou shalt neither shame or feare to dye. In a word, PlatoesPlato's Phylosophy in this, is true Diuinitie: that the best meane, and whole summe of …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… spot in the eye, which dims our understandings, and makes fooles of Catoes and PlatoesPlato's, and Tullies, and Achit…phels, leaving them never an eye to see withall. For …
With rule
… spot in the eye, which dims our understandings, and makes fooles of Catoes and PlatoesPlato's, and Tullies, and Achit…phels, leaving them never an eye to see withall. For …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 647 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.