Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39997 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pliniespliny's

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

Puritas changed it: 67 times in 54 works
Consistency: 100% (67 of 67)
Reach if approved: ~70 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pliny's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 67 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 54 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Devill is as odious to him as the deaffe; wee must not be like PliniesPliny's foreign without Lips, Tongue, and mouth, to shew forth his parise; Indeed sermo index animi …
With rule
… Devill is as odious to him as the deaffe; wee must not be like PliniesPliny's foreign without Lips, Tongue, and mouth, to shew forth his parise; Indeed sermo index animi …
Nathaniel Hardy · Justice Triumphing · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
He hath mended PliniesPliny's Preface to his Natural History by ancient Copies, and added Annotations upon it.
With rule
He hath mended PliniesPliny's Preface to his Natural History by ancient Copies, and added Annotations upon it.
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 345 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other works was joyned to the Continent; but so enlarged their bounds, that in PliniesPliny's time, the very wall of their city took in 22 furlongs, and reckoning Palaetyrus or …
With rule
… other works was joyned to the Continent; but so enlarged their bounds, that in PliniesPliny's time, the very wall of their city took in 22 furlongs, and reckoning Palaetyrus or …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, it was to me unwelcome Newes, as knowing the truth, and weight of PliniesPliny's ſpeech, Aliud eſt ſcribere uni, aliud omnibus. There be who thinke it was publiſhed …
With rule
… it, it was to me unwelcome Newes, as knowing the truth, and weight of PliniesPliny's ſpeech, Aliud eſt ſcribere uni, aliud omnibus. There be who thinke it was publiſhed …
John Cotton · The Bloody Tenant Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the three thousand first converts did all in singlenesse of heart; and so to PliniesPliny's time harmlesse people they were, that rose before day to sing Psalmes and Hymns …
With rule
… the three thousand first converts did all in singlenesse of heart; and so to PliniesPliny's time harmlesse people they were, that rose before day to sing Psalmes and Hymns …
William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſiſtaunce, as their louers faine, bee it that our weapons haue ſtunge them like PliniesPliny's flies, and that for the preſent they doo not feele what we haue don …
With rule
… reſiſtaunce, as their louers faine, bee it that our weapons haue ſtunge them like PliniesPliny's flies, and that for the preſent they doo not feele what we haue don …
John Prime · The Consolations of David Applied to Queen Elizabeth · Open in the reader
Printed
… lib. de potestate Papae, cap. 23. As the tumultuous Anabaptists had framed a Church like PliniesPliny's Acephali, all body and no head: so the Romish parasites haue built a Church …
With rule
… lib. de potestate Papae, cap. 23. As the tumultuous Anabaptists had framed a Church like PliniesPliny's Acephali, all body and no head: so the Romish parasites haue built a Church …
John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… knowledge are in Senecaes Letters to onely one Lucilius? and what of Naturall in PliniesPliny's? how much of the storie of the time, is in Ciceroes Letters? And how …
With rule
… knowledge are in Senecaes Letters to onely one Lucilius? and what of Naturall in PliniesPliny's? how much of the storie of the time, is in Ciceroes Letters? And how …
John Donne · Letters to Several Persons of Honor · p. 105 · 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.