Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9346 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

can'tcannot

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

Puritas changed it: 3,963 times in 617 works
Consistency: 98.3% (3,963 of 4,028)
Reach if approved: ~4,232 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: can't
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,028 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: canit (65)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,963 changes in 617 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,963)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To thee vouchſaf'd, what his age can'tcannot afford
With rule
To thee vouchſaf'd, what his age can'tcannot afford
Jacob Cats · Self-Conflict · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thee shew me thy glory, to whom answere was made by the Lord, thou can'tcannot not see my face, for there shall no man see my face and liue …
With rule
… thee shew me thy glory, to whom answere was made by the Lord, thou can'tcannot not see my face, for there shall no man see my face and liue …
John Boys · Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoul, and ſee that God hath done a great deal for it, yet he can'tcannot be ſatisfied ſo long as there are any riſings in the inward man, any …
With rule
… ſoul, and ſee that God hath done a great deal for it, yet he can'tcannot be ſatisfied ſo long as there are any riſings in the inward man, any …
Timothy Armitage · Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
…reat ſorrow can'tcannot be ſmother'd, in each eye
With rule
…reat ſorrow can'tcannot be ſmother'd, in each eye
John Batchiler · The Virgins Pattern in the Life and Death of Susanna Perwich · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Daniel; The 45 take ſuch hold of the 30, that all the force in the World can'tcannot divide them; As is Apparent by 1290 made 1335, the Thirty take the ſame hold of …
With rule
… Daniel; The 45 take ſuch hold of the 30, that all the force in the World can'tcannot divide them; As is Apparent by 1290 made 1335, the Thirty take the ſame hold of …
Thomas Beverley · An Apology for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ Within 1697 · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
You can'tcannot exempted be from death therefore.
With rule
You can'tcannot exempted be from death therefore.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and their horſes to ſtand in, and their oxen to feed in, &c. who can'tcannot find out a private place to ſeek the face of God in? But did …
With rule
… and their horſes to ſtand in, and their oxen to feed in, &c. who can'tcannot find out a private place to ſeek the face of God in? But did …
Thomas Brooks · The Privy Key of Heaven · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Or, which returns to the ſame Account, viz. From the Remotion of the Antecedent can'tcannot be inferr'd that of the Conſequent, as we obſerv'd Chapter the 12th in that …
With rule
… Or, which returns to the ſame Account, viz. From the Remotion of the Antecedent can'tcannot be inferr'd that of the Conſequent, as we obſerv'd Chapter the 12th in that …
Franco Burgersdijck · Abstract of Logic · p. 129 · 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.