Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39369 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

simonssimon's

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

Puritas changed it: 240 times in 137 works
Consistency: 99.1% (240 of 242)
Reach if approved: ~254 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 242 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (240 changes in 137 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 240)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is that which admitteth to Baptiſm; Simon himſelf believed and was Baptized, Act. 8.13. But SimonsSimon's Faith …ell ſhort of ſaving and juſtifying.
With rule
… is that which admitteth to Baptiſm; Simon himſelf believed and was Baptized, Act. 8.13. But SimonsSimon's Faith …ell ſhort of ſaving and juſtifying.
Richard Baxter · Apology Against the Exceptions of Black and Kendall · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
London, Printed for Nevil SimonsSimon's at the Princes Arms in Pauls Churchyard, 1676.
With rule
London, Printed for Nevil SimonsSimon's at the Princes Arms in Pauls Churchyard, 1676.
Richard Baxter · Review of the State of Christians Infants · Open in the reader
Printed
… Queries ſeriouſly propounded to thoſe that queſtion Infants Right to Baptiſme. Sold by Nevil SimonsSimon's, and Jonathan Robinſon, in St. Pauls Church-Yard.
With rule
… Queries ſeriouſly propounded to thoſe that queſtion Infants Right to Baptiſme. Sold by Nevil SimonsSimon's, and Jonathan Robinſon, in St. Pauls Church-Yard.
John Barret · The Christian Temper · Open in the reader
Printed
F. SimonsSimon's a Carmelite, Author of diuers late fooliſh Pamphlets: his lodging is in the lower …
With rule
F. SimonsSimon's a Carmelite, Author of diuers late fooliſh Pamphlets: his lodging is in the lower …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · Open in the reader
Printed
… mother, was conceyued without original sinne. For one of their Rabbines called Rabbi Iudas, SimonsSimon's sonne, doth so speculate, saying, That the matter wherof the mother of the Messias …
With rule
… mother, was conceyued without original sinne. For one of their Rabbines called Rabbi Iudas, SimonsSimon's sonne, doth so speculate, saying, That the matter wherof the mother of the Messias …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… flax which shee had spread vpon the roofe. Act. 10.9. Peter beeing in Ioppa in SimonsSimon's house a tanner, went vp vpon the house to pray. Of this kind seemed …
With rule
… flax which shee had spread vpon the roofe. Act. 10.9. Peter beeing in Ioppa in SimonsSimon's house a tanner, went vp vpon the house to pray. Of this kind seemed …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… opportunitie, to throw in his fierie darts, and sensuall Obiects from abroad, like false SimonsSimon's to insinuate themselues; but also, it feeles, to it much vexation, many rebellious stirrings …
With rule
… opportunitie, to throw in his fierie darts, and sensuall Obiects from abroad, like false SimonsSimon's to insinuate themselues; but also, it feeles, to it much vexation, many rebellious stirrings …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rather latrons of Church liuings, who with Gehezi, sell such things as none but SimonsSimon's will buy: who with the theefe, & traitor Iudas betray for quid mihi dabitis, the …
With rule
… rather latrons of Church liuings, who with Gehezi, sell such things as none but SimonsSimon's will buy: who with the theefe, & traitor Iudas betray for quid mihi dabitis, the …
George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 33 · 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.