Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40000 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

writt'nwrit'n

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

Puritas changed it: 71 times in 8 works
Consistency: 93.4% (71 of 76)
Reach if approved: ~80 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: written
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 76 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (71 changes in 8 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 71)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is a particular disesteem of every knowing person alive, and most injurious to the writt'nwrit'n labours and monuments of the dead, so to me it seems an undervaluing and …
With rule
… is a particular disesteem of every knowing person alive, and most injurious to the writt'nwrit'n labours and monuments of the dead, so to me it seems an undervaluing and …
John Milton · Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… These are his fair grounds both from Scripture-Canons and Ecclesiastical examples; how undivinelike writt'nwrit'n, and how like a worldly Gospeller that understands nothing of these matters, posteritie no …
With rule
… These are his fair grounds both from Scripture-Canons and Ecclesiastical examples; how undivinelike writt'nwrit'n, and how like a worldly Gospeller that understands nothing of these matters, posteritie no …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is reported, was miraculouſly reveal'd; but to tell how, by a Dove droping a writt'nwrit'n note on the Altar at Rome, is a long ſtory, told, though out of …
With rule
… is reported, was miraculouſly reveal'd; but to tell how, by a Dove droping a writt'nwrit'n note on the Altar at Rome, is a long ſtory, told, though out of …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Yet because that some lately with the tongues and arguments of Malignant backsliders have writt'nwrit'n that the proceedings now in Parlament against the King, are without president from any …
With rule
… Yet because that some lately with the tongues and arguments of Malignant backsliders have writt'nwrit'n that the proceedings now in Parlament against the King, are without president from any …
John Milton · The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I leav with you. It was writt'nwrit'n to a religious King of this land; writt'nwrit'n earnestly, as a main matter wher in this kingdom needed a reform, if it …
With rule
… I leav with you. It was writt'nwrit'n to a religious King of this land; writt'nwrit'n earnestly, as a main matter wher in this kingdom needed a reform, if it …
Martin Bucer · Concerning Divorce · Open in the reader
Printed
… as a man, or saith not the Law also the same? for it is writt'nwrit'n, Deut. 22. Thou shalt not sowe thy vineyard with divers seeds, lest thou defile both …
With rule
… as a man, or saith not the Law also the same? for it is writt'nwrit'n, Deut. 22. Thou shalt not sowe thy vineyard with divers seeds, lest thou defile both …
John Milton · Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abroad. Obſerv now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'nwrit'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankeſt Politician would think it ſhame …
With rule
… abroad. Obſerv now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'nwrit'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankeſt Politician would think it ſhame …
John Milton · Reply to a Nameless Answer Against Doctrine of Divorce · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us not the leiſure to underſtand aright. If the law of Chriſt ſhall be writt'nwrit'n in our hearts, as was promis'd to the Goſpel, Jer. 31, how can this in …
With rule
… us not the leiſure to underſtand aright. If the law of Chriſt ſhall be writt'nwrit'n in our hearts, as was promis'd to the Goſpel, Jer. 31, how can this in …
John Milton · Exposition Upon Marriage or Nullities of Marriage · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

Answer to a Book A50898

Printed
… it was intended him: which in his closet had bin excusable, but in a Writt'nWrit'n and publish'd prayer, too presumptuous. Ecclesiastes hath a right name for such kind of …
With rule
… it was intended him: which in his closet had bin excusable, but in a Writt'nWrit'n and publish'd prayer, too presumptuous. Ecclesiastes hath a right name for such kind of …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of those proceedings; though briefly, in regard so much on this Subject hath been Writt'nWrit'n lately.
With rule
… of those proceedings; though briefly, in regard so much on this Subject hath been Writt'nWrit'n lately.
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 212 · Open in the reader

Concerning Divorce A69646

Printed
Writt'nWrit'n to Edward the sixt, in his second Book of the Kingdom of Christ.
With rule
Writt'nWrit'n to Edward the sixt, in his second Book of the Kingdom of Christ.
Martin Bucer · Concerning Divorce · Open in the reader
Printed
… this kingdom needed a reform, if it purpos'd to be the kingdom of Christ: Writt'nWrit'n by him who if any since the d…ies of Luther, merits to be …
With rule
… this kingdom needed a reform, if it purpos'd to be the kingdom of Christ: Writt'nWrit'n by him who if any since the d…ies of Luther, merits to be …
Martin Bucer · Concerning Divorce · Open in the reader