Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40182 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wish'twishit

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

Puritas changed it: 50 times in 39 works
Consistency: 100% (50 of 50)
Reach if approved: ~53 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: wished
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 50 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (50 changes in 39 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 50)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Eſau, whom the feare of Iſaac withheld from murdering of Jacob, when yet he wiſh'twishit with all his ſoul the death of his father, that he might accompliſh that …
With rule
… Eſau, whom the feare of Iſaac withheld from murdering of Jacob, when yet he wiſh'twishit with all his ſoul the death of his father, that he might accompliſh that …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 395 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pray, are all one as if they dyed not, but live for ever. I wish'twishit I could pray aright, but could not tell how to do it. I did …
With rule
… pray, are all one as if they dyed not, but live for ever. I wish'twishit I could pray aright, but could not tell how to do it. I did …
John Eliot · Further Narrative of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
It were to be wiſh'twishit that the paines that is taken in defaming all bodily worſhip, under the morma …
With rule
It were to be wiſh'twishit that the paines that is taken in defaming all bodily worſhip, under the morma …
Henry Hammond · Of Superstition · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, hearing themſelves entreated by the Britans, to that which gladly they would have wiſh'twishit to obtain of them by entreating, to the Britiſh Embaſſy return this anſwer. Be …
With rule
… them, hearing themſelves entreated by the Britans, to that which gladly they would have wiſh'twishit to obtain of them by entreating, to the Britiſh Embaſſy return this anſwer. Be …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
And wiſh'twishit ith' live Teſtators hand untold?
With rule
And wiſh'twishit ith' live Teſtators hand untold?
Samuel Fairclough Jr · Suffolks Tears · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word, Repent, as a terrible word, I did even hate that word; and I wiſh'twishit that there had been no ſuch word in all the book of God: but …
With rule
… word, Repent, as a terrible word, I did even hate that word; and I wiſh'twishit that there had been no ſuch word in all the book of God: but …
William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the drinke might yeeld them the more pleaſure in going downe to their ſtomachs, wiſh'twishit the one a Swans throat, the other a Cranes neck. For let them ſay …
With rule
… the drinke might yeeld them the more pleaſure in going downe to their ſtomachs, wiſh'twishit the one a Swans throat, the other a Cranes neck. For let them ſay …
Richard Younge · The Odious Condition of a Drunkard · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… breakfaſt: but when he had eaten it, and found himſelfe poyſoned with it, he wiſh'twishit the Crow her owne againe. Wealth got by deceit, is like a peece of …
With rule
… breakfaſt: but when he had eaten it, and found himſelfe poyſoned with it, he wiſh'twishit the Crow her owne againe. Wealth got by deceit, is like a peece of …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 618 · 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.