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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39633 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

canaanscanaan's

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

Puritas changed it
126 times in 96 works
Consistency
97.6% (126 of 129)
Reach if approved
~136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
129 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (126 changes in 96 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 126)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the whole Countrey and land of Canaan: but these were some one people of CanaansCanaan's posterity, which were especially called by that name, who inhabited in the West part …
    With rule
    … the whole Countrey and land of Canaan: but these were some one people of CanaansCanaan's posterity, which were especially called by that name, who inhabited in the West part …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … rest nor Gods, indeed no rest at all, neither temporall spirituall nor eternall, neither CanaansCanaan's rest, nor the Gospels rest, nor the Sabbaths rest; For verse 3. God sware in …
    With rule
    … rest nor Gods, indeed no rest at all, neither temporall spirituall nor eternall, neither CanaansCanaan's rest, nor the Gospels rest, nor the Sabbaths rest; For verse 3. God sware in …

    George Abbot · The Sabbath Vindicated · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Holy Ghoſt? And yet this is but a ſmall taſt, a branch of CanaansCanaan's Grapes, and nothing compared with what is behind, to be eternally enjoyed: But if …
    With rule
    … the Holy Ghoſt? And yet this is but a ſmall taſt, a branch of CanaansCanaan's Grapes, and nothing compared with what is behind, to be eternally enjoyed: But if …

    Edward Bury · Death Improved and Immoderate Sorrow Reproved · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to seek a wandering Sheep: from this his journey-taking for the woman of CanaansCanaan's cause; Learn, 1. That where Christ hath a lost sheep, or a work of mercy …
    With rule
    … to seek a wandering Sheep: from this his journey-taking for the woman of CanaansCanaan's cause; Learn, 1. That where Christ hath a lost sheep, or a work of mercy …

    David Dickson · A Brief Exposition of Matthew · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    D. 2. CanaansCanaan's heirs or children of promise may sojourn in Egypt.
    With rule
    D. 2. CanaansCanaan's heirs or children of promise may sojourn in Egypt.

    George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 793 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Is not an Infinitely Glorious, and Bleſſed God, better than Canaan, than all the CanaansCanaan's and Paradiſes in the World, yea, than thouſands of Worlds? But further to ſee …
    With rule
    … Is not an Infinitely Glorious, and Bleſſed God, better than Canaan, than all the CanaansCanaan's and Paradiſes in the World, yea, than thouſands of Worlds? But further to ſee …

    Francis Mence · Vindication of the Interest of Children of Believers · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … this; I will not let thee goe while thou blesse me. The woman of CanaansCanaan's daughters body is not freed of the divell at the first or second cry …
    With rule
    … this; I will not let thee goe while thou blesse me. The woman of CanaansCanaan's daughters body is not freed of the divell at the first or second cry …

    Samuel Rutherford · Sermon 31 January 1644 · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Fathers for their Children for three hundred and ninety years together. Chams ſins and CanaansCanaan's is puniſht nine hundred twenty-five years after; and Gehazi his Leproſie cleaves to …
    With rule
    … Fathers for their Children for three hundred and ninety years together. Chams ſins and CanaansCanaan's is puniſht nine hundred twenty-five years after; and Gehazi his Leproſie cleaves to …

    William Strong · A Discourse of the Two Covenants · p. 12 · 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.