Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39738 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vers'dversed

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

Puritas changed it: 103 times in 87 works
Consistency: 99.0% (103 of 104)
Reach if approved: ~109 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: versed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 104 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (103 changes in 87 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 103)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… might, at leaſt, in Part, have been rectified by himſelf, had he been well vers'dversed in ſound Philoſophy, and if he had but aſſented to ſome common Maxims granted …
With rule
… might, at leaſt, in Part, have been rectified by himſelf, had he been well vers'dversed in ſound Philoſophy, and if he had but aſſented to ſome common Maxims granted …
Richard Frankland · Reflections on a Letter · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuperficial view ſeem but inconſiderable brangles; but to men of piercing judgements, and well vers'dversed in Parliamentary debates, that ſee daily what a King the Speaker would be, if …
With rule
… ſuperficial view ſeem but inconſiderable brangles; but to men of piercing judgements, and well vers'dversed in Parliamentary debates, that ſee daily what a King the Speaker would be, if …
Charles Hotham · The Petition and Argument of Mr Hotham · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one disposes and induces to another, but yet one ungodly Man is readily more vers'dversed in, and delighted with some one kind of sin, another with some other, forbears …
With rule
… one disposes and induces to another, but yet one ungodly Man is readily more vers'dversed in, and delighted with some one kind of sin, another with some other, forbears …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
I'm vers'dversed in Words, as Galenist in Herbs;
With rule
I'm vers'dversed in Words, as Galenist in Herbs;
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by this door of neglect, let into the firſt Churches, he is not ſo vers'dversed in divine and humane Church Hiſtory▪ as the time of the fulfilling Propheſy we …
With rule
… by this door of neglect, let into the firſt Churches, he is not ſo vers'dversed in divine and humane Church Hiſtory▪ as the time of the fulfilling Propheſy we …
Joshua Scottow · The Planting of the Massachusetts Colony · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the strong, and the learned, and the industrious, and them that are best vers'dversed in men and business, of their several ends and designs.
With rule
… and the strong, and the learned, and the industrious, and them that are best vers'dversed in men and business, of their several ends and designs.
John Tillotson · Sermon on 16 April · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preſervation of mens lives, ſo alſo skill in the Laws, by thoſe that are vers'dversed in them, for the help of their neighbour, in exigents; concerning his eſtate and …
With rule
… preſervation of mens lives, ſo alſo skill in the Laws, by thoſe that are vers'dversed in them, for the help of their neighbour, in exigents; concerning his eſtate and …
Thomas Blake · The Covenant of God Entered with Mankind · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neither Buſh nor Paint: Let it be but ſeriouſly perus'd by a perſon really vers'dversed in that great and Heavenly (though now horribly neglected) Work of Mortification, and it …
With rule
… neither Buſh nor Paint: Let it be but ſeriouſly perus'd by a perſon really vers'dversed in that great and Heavenly (though now horribly neglected) Work of Mortification, and it …
Alexander Carmichael · Believers Mortification of Sin · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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