Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9606 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

walk'dwalked

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

Puritas changed it: 228 times in 143 works
Consistency: 96.2% (228 of 237)
Reach if approved: ~249 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: walked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 237 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (228 changes in 143 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 228)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… me: when his Candle shin'd upon my head, and when by his Light I walk'dwalked through darkness: As I was in the days of my youth, when the Secret …
With rule
… me: when his Candle shin'd upon my head, and when by his Light I walk'dwalked through darkness: As I was in the days of my youth, when the Secret …
William Bates · A Funeral Sermon for Thomas Manton · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
They snares in wayes wherein I walk'dwalked laid privily for me.
With rule
They snares in wayes wherein I walk'dwalked laid privily for me.
Zacharie Boyd · The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined · Open in the reader
Printed
… their patterns and examples. For he tells them, there were many falſe Teachers who walk'dwalked otherwiſe, whoſe example was not to be followed; of whom he had often warn'd …
With rule
… their patterns and examples. For he tells them, there were many falſe Teachers who walk'dwalked otherwiſe, whoſe example was not to be followed; of whom he had often warn'd …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mollifying Circumſtances and Conſiderations of Ignorance. Whilſt Men had little or no Underſtanding, but walk'dwalked on ſtill in Darkneſs, 'twas no wonder that the Foundations of the Moral, as …
With rule
… mollifying Circumſtances and Conſiderations of Ignorance. Whilſt Men had little or no Underſtanding, but walk'dwalked on ſtill in Darkneſs, 'twas no wonder that the Foundations of the Moral, as …
Thomas Gregory · Discourses Upon Several Divine Subjects · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… regard to the Goodneſs of God, but that whoſoever he was, or is, that walk'dwalked, or walks up to his Light in ſincerity, with a general Repentance for his …
With rule
… regard to the Goodneſs of God, but that whoſoever he was, or is, that walk'dwalked, or walks up to his Light in ſincerity, with a general Repentance for his …
John Humfrey · The Peaceable Design · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
Through the dear might of him that walk'dwalked the waves
With rule
Through the dear might of him that walk'dwalked the waves
John Milton · Poems · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and publickly frequented; no man offer'd to pull down their Altars: where the Fryers walk'dwalked the Streets in their uncouth Habits; no man threw Dirt at them: the Popiſh …
With rule
… and publickly frequented; no man offer'd to pull down their Altars: where the Fryers walk'dwalked the Streets in their uncouth Habits; no man threw Dirt at them: the Popiſh …
George Philips · The Interest of England in the Preservation of Ireland · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Doctors [by] to seduce the unwary Reader into a Conceit; then when we have walk'dwalked in the light as God is in the light, for some competent time, at …
With rule
… Doctors [by] to seduce the unwary Reader into a Conceit; then when we have walk'dwalked in the light as God is in the light, for some competent time, at …
Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 218 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Walk'dWalked up and down alone bent on his prey,
With rule
Walk'dWalked up and down alone bent on his prey,
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
Walk'dWalked firm; the erested Cock whose clarion sounds
With rule
Walk'dWalked firm; the erested Cock whose clarion sounds
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… Walking upon the Sea, ſhowing himſelf herein to be greater than Moſes, who onely Walk'dWalked through a Sea Dryed up, but the Meſſiah Walks upon the ſurface of a …
With rule
… Walking upon the Sea, ſhowing himſelf herein to be greater than Moſes, who onely Walk'dWalked through a Sea Dryed up, but the Meſſiah Walks upon the ſurface of a …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 334 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

Printed
Walk'dWalked, and ſurveid the roomes of this vaſt houſe,
With rule
Walk'dWalked, and ſurveid the roomes of this vaſt houſe,
John Donne · Poems · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow A96786

Printed
Walk'dWalked forth to ſee, if providence divine,
With rule
Walk'dWalked forth to ſee, if providence divine,
George Wither · Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow · p. 28 · Open in the reader