Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10563 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dig'ddigged

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

Puritas changed it: 76 times in 65 works
Consistency: 95.0% (76 of 80)
Reach if approved: ~84 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: dug
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 80 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 65 works, 95.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… heaps of Ruins and Rubbish inclosed within the Vineyards and Gardens being not half dig'ddigged up or search't, as they might be, the tops of Pillars peeping up and …
With rule
… heaps of Ruins and Rubbish inclosed within the Vineyards and Gardens being not half dig'ddigged up or search't, as they might be, the tops of Pillars peeping up and …
John Ray · Three Physico-Theological Discourses · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereby many cures are effected. How many have surteited on honey? how many have dig'ddigged their gravs in a Sugar-loaf? how many diseases have bin caused by the …
With rule
… whereby many cures are effected. How many have surteited on honey? how many have dig'ddigged their gravs in a Sugar-loaf? how many diseases have bin caused by the …
Thomas Fuller · The Speech of Birds also the Speech of Flowers · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… grown Saints: he calls theſe Doctrines Foundations, and therefore doubtleſs would not have them dig'ddigged up, but would have them build on theſe other and higher ſtories, even to …
With rule
… grown Saints: he calls theſe Doctrines Foundations, and therefore doubtleſs would not have them dig'ddigged up, but would have them build on theſe other and higher ſtories, even to …
Ralph Venning · Remains · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereby many cures are effected. How many have ſurfeited on honey? how many have dig'ddigged their gravs in a Sugar-loaf? how many diſeaſes have bin cauſed by the …
With rule
… whereby many cures are effected. How many have ſurfeited on honey? how many have dig'ddigged their gravs in a Sugar-loaf? how many diſeaſes have bin cauſed by the …
Thomas Fuller · The Speech of Flowers · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
Verſ. 15. And for the chiefe things] Metalls and Minerals uſually dig'ddigged out of mountains, which are here called ancient and laſting, becauſe they have been …
With rule
Verſ. 15. And for the chiefe things] Metalls and Minerals uſually dig'ddigged out of mountains, which are here called ancient and laſting, becauſe they have been …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Quality derived from rebellious Adam; we are all hewn out of the Rock, and dig'ddigged out of the Quarry: and this is one of the worst Effects of Sin …
With rule
… Quality derived from rebellious Adam; we are all hewn out of the Rock, and dig'ddigged out of the Quarry: and this is one of the worst Effects of Sin …
William Bates · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
Hast not been dig'ddigged about, and dunged too,
With rule
Hast not been dig'ddigged about, and dunged too,
John Bunyan · A Book for Boys and Girls · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
But the Court-prerogative, the root of all theſe oppreſſions being now dig'ddigged up, theſe excrementitious branches will, I hope, be thought fit to be removed with …
With rule
But the Court-prerogative, the root of all theſe oppreſſions being now dig'ddigged up, theſe excrementitious branches will, I hope, be thought fit to be removed with …
Charles Hotham · The Petition and Argument of Mr Hotham · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.