Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40028 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

roll'drolled

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

Puritas changed it: 72 times in 63 works
Consistency: 88.8% (72 of 81)
Reach if approved: ~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rolled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: roll (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (72 changes in 63 works, 88.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 72)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… will be effectually clear'd and vindicated; Despised Holiness will be honour'd; Mistakes rectify'd; Reproaches roll'drolled away; and every thing set in a true Light. Then you shall return and …
With rule
… will be effectually clear'd and vindicated; Despised Holiness will be honour'd; Mistakes rectify'd; Reproaches roll'drolled away; and every thing set in a true Light. Then you shall return and …
Matthew Henry · Meekness and Quietness of Spirit · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
Five Tens of Years roll'drolled since thy Life began.
With rule
Five Tens of Years roll'drolled since thy Life began.
Cotton Mather · Poem Dedicated to Urian Oaks · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ears: When the Heavens shall be shrivel'd up as a Scroll when it is roll'drolled together, and the Earth shall be toss'd from its Center, and every Mountain and …
With rule
… ears: When the Heavens shall be shrivel'd up as a Scroll when it is roll'drolled together, and the Earth shall be toss'd from its Center, and every Mountain and …
John Tillotson · The Parable of the Ten Virgins · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we can't yet diſcern, becauſe they are according to the ancient Form of Books, roll'drolled up; which, tho God be gradually unfolding, yet 'tis in Heaven only that they …
With rule
… we can't yet diſcern, becauſe they are according to the ancient Form of Books, roll'drolled up; which, tho God be gradually unfolding, yet 'tis in Heaven only that they …
Nathanael Taylor · Sermon 12 February 1687 · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the reſt, which leap'd upon him, winded about his waſte like a girdle, and roll'drolled him into the Ditch, and ſo kill'd the Charmer himſelf in the Concluſion. Alas …
With rule
… the reſt, which leap'd upon him, winded about his waſte like a girdle, and roll'drolled him into the Ditch, and ſo kill'd the Charmer himſelf in the Concluſion. Alas …
Thomas Case · The Morning Exercise Methodized · p. 631 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or left when we die, like the Worm that leaves all the Dirt she roll'drolled in behind her upon the hole of the Earth she creeps in at.
With rule
… or left when we die, like the Worm that leaves all the Dirt she roll'drolled in behind her upon the hole of the Earth she creeps in at.
Francis Fuller · Rules How to Use the World · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
While down in liquid tears the broken vapours roll'drolled.
With rule
While down in liquid tears the broken vapours roll'drolled.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Job, Job. 1.22. That in all this, that is, in thoſe many waves that roll'drolled over him, he did not charge God fooliſhly, he never ſpake nor thought any …
With rule
… to Job, Job. 1.22. That in all this, that is, in thoſe many waves that roll'drolled over him, he did not charge God fooliſhly, he never ſpake nor thought any …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 76 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.