Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40051 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

issacharsissachar's

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

Puritas changed it: 64 times in 36 works
Consistency: 95.5% (64 of 67)
Reach if approved: ~70 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
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 (64 changes in 36 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 64)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… home, differing from Zabulons going abroad to trade. Chazkuni (on this place) noteth, that IssacharsIssachar's land was good to sow, and hee sate in tents to keepe his fields …
With rule
… home, differing from Zabulons going abroad to trade. Chazkuni (on this place) noteth, that IssacharsIssachar's land was good to sow, and hee sate in tents to keepe his fields …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… grace: and to ſtop up ſinners way with thornes. Ierom affirmes that this was IſſacharsIssachar's underſtanding of the times; they were (inter alia) doctores ad feſtivitates, their excellency lay …
With rule
… grace: and to ſtop up ſinners way with thornes. Ierom affirmes that this was IſſacharsIssachar's underſtanding of the times; they were (inter alia) doctores ad feſtivitates, their excellency lay …
Samuel Annesley · The First Dish at the Wilshire Feast · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to beare (and were angry with all that bowed not with them) poſſibly for IſſacharsIssachar's reaſon too (though I judge no mans intentions) becauſe they ſaw that reſt was …
With rule
… to beare (and were angry with all that bowed not with them) poſſibly for IſſacharsIssachar's reaſon too (though I judge no mans intentions) becauſe they ſaw that reſt was …
Joseph Caryl · The Works of Ephesus · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lay between Benjamins and Zebuluns, whoſe borders have been already deſcribed (and ſo conſequently IſſacharsIssachar's alſo) therefore the line of their borders is not here deſcribed as in the …
With rule
… lay between Benjamins and Zebuluns, whoſe borders have been already deſcribed (and ſo conſequently IſſacharsIssachar's alſo) therefore the line of their borders is not here deſcribed as in the …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Historical Books Part 2 · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot be justified: But such Complyances are condemned, and cannot be approven. This was IssacharsIssachar's brand, that being a strong Ass, he couched between burdens, and bowed his shoulder …
With rule
… cannot be justified: But such Complyances are condemned, and cannot be approven. This was IssacharsIssachar's brand, that being a strong Ass, he couched between burdens, and bowed his shoulder …
Alexander Shields · A Hind Let Loose · p. 727 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot but bee to their Miniſteriall Function. For, if the Levite take upon him IſſacharsIssachar's Office, and fall to tampering ſo high in Temporalls, hee will ſoone prove an …
With rule
… cannot but bee to their Miniſteriall Function. For, if the Levite take upon him IſſacharsIssachar's Office, and fall to tampering ſo high in Temporalls, hee will ſoone prove an …
Cornelius Burges · Humble Examination of a Printed Abstract of the Answers to Nine Reasons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poor ſpirit; and his poſterity were, for the general, very unworthy and vile. For IſſacharsIssachar's lot fell in Galilee, Joſh. 19.18. &c. Now, doth any good come out of Galilee …
With rule
… poor ſpirit; and his poſterity were, for the general, very unworthy and vile. For IſſacharsIssachar's lot fell in Galilee, Joſh. 19.18. &c. Now, doth any good come out of Galilee …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 377 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the neglect of which may bring a great deal of misery: it was therefore IssacharsIssachar's commendation that they understood the Times.
With rule
… the neglect of which may bring a great deal of misery: it was therefore IssacharsIssachar's commendation that they understood the Times.
Samuel Willard · Sermon Upon the Death of Jon Leveret · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland A77444

Printed
THE UNLOADING OF ISSACHARSISSACHAR'S BURTHEN.
With rule
THE UNLOADING OF ISSACHARSISSACHAR'S BURTHEN.
Robert Baillie · A Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland · p. 1 · Open in the reader