Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39743 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tun'dtuned

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

Puritas changed it: 103 times in 73 works
Consistency: 98.1% (103 of 105)
Reach if approved: ~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tuned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 105 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 73 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 103)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
His End, (which was the eccho of this well-tun'dtuned Cymbal) you have heard of: ſo that I cannot better ſum up all here …
With rule
His End, (which was the eccho of this well-tun'dtuned Cymbal) you have heard of: ſo that I cannot better ſum up all here …
Josias Shute · Sarah and Hagar · Open in the reader
Printed
But, like thoſe, which are always tun'dtuned and ſtrung
With rule
But, like thoſe, which are always tun'dtuned and ſtrung
George Wither · Sigh for the Pitchers Breathed Out · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… digeſted, then was he ſtirred by the Spirit of prophecy: when the Minſtrell was tun'dtuned, then the hand of the Lord came upon Eliſha, 2 King. 3.15. Mens hearts and ſpirits …
With rule
… digeſted, then was he ſtirred by the Spirit of prophecy: when the Minſtrell was tun'dtuned, then the hand of the Lord came upon Eliſha, 2 King. 3.15. Mens hearts and ſpirits …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 1-5 · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
It's well-tun'dtuned strings; and to her notes consorted:
With rule
It's well-tun'dtuned strings; and to her notes consorted:
Phineas Fletcher · Britains Ida · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord, 2 Kings 3. 15. as if the Music had inspir'd him, and his soul was tun'dtuned into Enthusiasme; and so also 1 Sam. 10. 5. thou shalt meet a company of Prophets coming …
With rule
… the Lord, 2 Kings 3. 15. as if the Music had inspir'd him, and his soul was tun'dtuned into Enthusiasme; and so also 1 Sam. 10. 5. thou shalt meet a company of Prophets coming …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
As a new tun'dtuned Cask of unpurged Wine;
With rule
As a new tun'dtuned Cask of unpurged Wine;
Daniel Cudmore · The History of Joseph · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for ſuch an undertaking, both muſt be in a ſuitable frame, (like a well-tun'dtuned Inſtrument) elſe there will be no melody: Hence, when David prepared himſelf for Praiſes …
With rule
… for ſuch an undertaking, both muſt be in a ſuitable frame, (like a well-tun'dtuned Inſtrument) elſe there will be no melody: Hence, when David prepared himſelf for Praiſes …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for this respect so much prais'd by the wise Polybius, more divinely and harmoniously tun'dtuned, more equally ballanc'd as it were by the hand and scale of Justice, then …
With rule
… for this respect so much prais'd by the wise Polybius, more divinely and harmoniously tun'dtuned, more equally ballanc'd as it were by the hand and scale of Justice, then …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 72 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 A47642

Printed
… kind of Men employed in this Salvation make up one Organ, or great Instrument, Tun'dTuned by the same hand, and sounding by the same breath of the spirit of …
With rule
… kind of Men employed in this Salvation make up one Organ, or great Instrument, Tun'dTuned by the same hand, and sounding by the same breath of the spirit of …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 129 · Open in the reader