Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39776 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

haroldsharold's

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

Puritas changed it: 94 times in 11 works
Consistency: 100% (94 of 94)
Reach if approved: ~99 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: harold's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 94 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (94 changes in 11 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Title was not ſo good as it ſhould be, yet it was better then HaroldsHarold's, who was onely the Sonne of Goodwyn, Steward of King Edwards houſe; Whereas William …
With rule
… Title was not ſo good as it ſhould be, yet it was better then HaroldsHarold's, who was onely the Sonne of Goodwyn, Steward of King Edwards houſe; Whereas William …
Philip Hunton · A Treatise of Monarchy · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… effeminate Prieſts, but Souldiers of great and valourous minds, invincible in arms. Whereupon Girth, HaroldsHarold's younger Brother, a man of great knowledge and valour beyond his years, taking the …
With rule
… effeminate Prieſts, but Souldiers of great and valourous minds, invincible in arms. Whereupon Girth, HaroldsHarold's younger Brother, a man of great knowledge and valour beyond his years, taking the …
William Prynne · Vindication of Fundamental Rights and Governments of English Freemen · p. 361 · Open in the reader
Printed
… effeminate Prieſts, but Souldiers of great and valourous minds, invincible in arms. Whereupon Girth, HaroldsHarold's younger Brother, a man of great knowledge and valour beyond his years, taking the …
With rule
… effeminate Prieſts, but Souldiers of great and valourous minds, invincible in arms. Whereupon Girth, HaroldsHarold's younger Brother, a man of great knowledge and valour beyond his years, taking the …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 3 · p. 361 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Cherubims from the Baſes of Braſs. However, there is ſtill a place called HaroldsHarold's-Park in our Pariſh, by him ſo denominated. Let not therefore the village of …
With rule
… and Cherubims from the Baſes of Braſs. However, there is ſtill a place called HaroldsHarold's-Park in our Pariſh, by him ſo denominated. Let not therefore the village of …
Thomas Fuller · The History of Waltham Abby in Essex · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… warre, but deluding and deceiuing with false miracles, and lying signes, 2. Thessal. 2. Not with HaroldsHarold's of armes openly proclaming warre: but he shall worke in a mysterie, Apocal. 17.5. Wherefore …
With rule
… warre, but deluding and deceiuing with false miracles, and lying signes, 2. Thessal. 2. Not with HaroldsHarold's of armes openly proclaming warre: but he shall worke in a mysterie, Apocal. 17.5. Wherefore …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
DUke William incensed with HaroldsHarold's answers, acquaints his Nobility with his purpose, who with some adoe consented to ayd …
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DUke William incensed with HaroldsHarold's answers, acquaints his Nobility with his purpose, who with some adoe consented to ayd …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by right of Kinred to, and gift by King Edward his Nephew, and by HaroldsHarold's own solemn Oath and promise, made to him in Normandy, to preserve the Kingdom …
With rule
… by right of Kinred to, and gift by King Edward his Nephew, and by HaroldsHarold's own solemn Oath and promise, made to him in Normandy, to preserve the Kingdom …
William Prynne · The Exact Recorder · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
THis Proclamation being very solemnly made with sound of Trumpets, and by HaroldsHarold's, with coats of Our arms on their backs, at the market Crosse of Glascow …
With rule
THis Proclamation being very solemnly made with sound of Trumpets, and by HaroldsHarold's, with coats of Our arms on their backs, at the market Crosse of Glascow …
Walter Balcanquhall · Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland · p. 294 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.