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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9508 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

naomiesnaomi's

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

Puritas changed it
57 times in 31 works
Consistency
96.6% (57 of 59)
Reach if approved
~62 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
59 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (57 changes in 31 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 57)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … come out of every Countrey to this poor City, that come like so many NaomiesNaomi's, coming from Moab, and crying out, Call me not Naomi, but call me Marah …
    With rule
    … come out of every Countrey to this poor City, that come like so many NaomiesNaomi's, coming from Moab, and crying out, Call me not Naomi, but call me Marah …

    Jeremiah Whittaker · The Christians Great Design · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … then prosylited, and had cast off their Idolatry, or it had been unlawfull for NaomiesNaomi's Sons to marry them, as was but now shown a little above, and in …
    With rule
    … then prosylited, and had cast off their Idolatry, or it had been unlawfull for NaomiesNaomi's Sons to marry them, as was but now shown a little above, and in …

    John Griffith · The Unlawfulness of Mixed Marriages · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    It was NaomiesNaomi's wisdome to bid her Daughter Ruth goe backe to her kindred, but shee would …
    With rule
    It was NaomiesNaomi's wisdome to bid her Daughter Ruth goe backe to her kindred, but shee would …

    John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … end of their office, which is to be comforters; not to be Marahs but NaomiesNaomi's: Spiritual conſolation is the proper fruit of the ſpirit of Adoption, and therefore a …
    With rule
    … end of their office, which is to be comforters; not to be Marahs but NaomiesNaomi's: Spiritual conſolation is the proper fruit of the ſpirit of Adoption, and therefore a …

    Anthony Burgess · An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 692 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Mercy: And that, as I said, this very day. For, as Boaz said to NaomiesNaomi's kinsman, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must …
    With rule
    … Mercy: And that, as I said, this very day. For, as Boaz said to NaomiesNaomi's kinsman, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must …

    Christopher Jelinger · A New Canaan Full of Most Pleasant Gardens · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … if not adopt them. And in a sort not much unlike, is Obed called NaomiesNaomi's son Ruth IV. 16, 17. see Matth. I. 25. and XXVIII. 20.
    With rule
    … if not adopt them. And in a sort not much unlike, is Obed called NaomiesNaomi's son Ruth IV. 16, 17. see Matth. I. 25. and XXVIII. 20.

    John Richardson · Observations Upon the Old Testament · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but they are all glorious within, Pſalm 45.13. neither is this a decaying beauty like NaomiesNaomi's, Ruth. 1.20. who in a few yeares was metamorphoſed into Marah, as herſelf complaines: nor …
    With rule
    … but they are all glorious within, Pſalm 45.13. neither is this a decaying beauty like NaomiesNaomi's, Ruth. 1.20. who in a few yeares was metamorphoſed into Marah, as herſelf complaines: nor …

    Faithful Teate · Nathanael · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that theſe two did voluntarily accompany her, of their owne minds, and not by NaomiesNaomi's intreatie; this appeareth out of verſe 8. and 11. What moued them hereto, but NaomiesNaomi's vertues …
    With rule
    … that theſe two did voluntarily accompany her, of their owne minds, and not by NaomiesNaomi's intreatie; this appeareth out of verſe 8. and 11. What moued them hereto, but NaomiesNaomi's vertues …

    Richard Bernard · Ruths Recompense · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Ruths Recompense A68568

  • Printed
    NAomiesNaomi's reply vnto their ſpeech, and ſecond triall of them: wherein is an Exhortation, and …
    With rule
    NAomiesNaomi's reply vnto their ſpeech, and ſecond triall of them: wherein is an Exhortation, and …

    Richard Bernard · Ruths Recompense · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    NAomiesNaomi's third motion to haue them to returne, vſing ſtill the ſame exhortation, with the …
    With rule
    NAomiesNaomi's third motion to haue them to returne, vſing ſtill the ſame exhortation, with the …

    Richard Bernard · Ruths Recompense · p. 64 · Open in the reader