Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9440 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tho'tthought

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

Puritas changed it: 240 times in 90 works
Consistency: 73.3% (240 of 327)
Reach if approved: ~349 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: tho't
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 332 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: thoit (87)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (240 changes in 90 works, 73.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 240)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Meditation. I might enforce this Duty by a Variety of Conſiderations.—And I had tho'tthought here to direct the Exhortation to our Candidates for the Pulpit. As you wou'd …
With rule
… Meditation. I might enforce this Duty by a Variety of Conſiderations.—And I had tho'tthought here to direct the Exhortation to our Candidates for the Pulpit. As you wou'd …
Thomas Foxcroft · Some Seasonable Thoughts on Evangelic Preaching · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he Lost the World, which he tho'tthought he had Gained, as well as his Soul; and now has not the least …
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… into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he Lost the World, which he tho'tthought he had Gained, as well as his Soul; and now has not the least …
John Barnard · The Hazard and Unprofitableness of Losing A Soul for Gaining the World · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… THE Modeſty of his Petition. He asks to be tho'tthought upon. Beſtow a kind tho'tthought upon me, my God. That ſhall be eno' to me, if my God will …
With rule
… THE Modeſty of his Petition. He asks to be tho'tthought upon. Beſtow a kind tho'tthought upon me, my God. That ſhall be eno' to me, if my God will …
Benjamin Colman · The Religious Regards We Owe to Our Country · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
I tho'tthought it proper thus to inlarge on and illuſtrate our Bleſſed SAVIOUR's Words to a …
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I tho'tthought it proper thus to inlarge on and illuſtrate our Bleſſed SAVIOUR's Words to a …
Benjamin Colman · Discourse in College-Hall 27 March 1722 · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Repetition or Delivery of the Apoſtolical Commiſſion to him, upon this Preferment, is tho'tthought unneceſſary. So that (as I hinted in the Appendix, pag. 24.) it ſhould ſeem that …
With rule
… the Repetition or Delivery of the Apoſtolical Commiſſion to him, upon this Preferment, is tho'tthought unneceſſary. So that (as I hinted in the Appendix, pag. 24.) it ſhould ſeem that …
Thomas Foxcroft · Vindication of the Appendix to The Sober Remarks · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſurpriſing manner; bright Streams of Fire darting inceſſantly in every part: So that we tho'tthought we ſaw ſome Reſemblance of the Day of GOD, when the Lord JESUS ſhall …
With rule
… ſurpriſing manner; bright Streams of Fire darting inceſſantly in every part: So that we tho'tthought we ſaw ſome Reſemblance of the Day of GOD, when the Lord JESUS ſhall …
Thomas Foxcroft · The Voice of the Lord from the Deep Places of the Earth · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaid I have gone in ſomewhat an Untrodden Path: And perhaps it may be tho'tthought by ſome here preſent, that the Argument I have been upon is improper and …
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… ſaid I have gone in ſomewhat an Untrodden Path: And perhaps it may be tho'tthought by ſome here preſent, that the Argument I have been upon is improper and …
John Bulkley · The Usefulness of Revealed Religion · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now to have obey'd and continued happy; but to be ſure you would have tho'tthought that he could never dare to offend in this particular Point, by Eating of …
With rule
… now to have obey'd and continued happy; but to be ſure you would have tho'tthought that he could never dare to offend in this particular Point, by Eating of …
Benjamin Colman · The First Three Chapters of Genesis · p. 37 · 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.