Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9631 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dress'ddressed

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

Puritas changed it: 97 times in 78 works
Consistency: 97.9% (97 of 99)
Reach if approved: ~104 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dressed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 99 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (97 changes in 78 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 97)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the People of this Country eat raw Fleſh, except the King, who has it dreſs'ddressed, and drinks Wine of Grapes; the reſt drink only Wine made of Millet or …
With rule
… the People of this Country eat raw Fleſh, except the King, who has it dreſs'ddressed, and drinks Wine of Grapes; the reſt drink only Wine made of Millet or …
John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what it is. So that it matters not in what faſhion a Slander is dreſs'ddressed up, if it tend to defame a man and to diminiſh his Reputation, it …
With rule
… what it is. So that it matters not in what faſhion a Slander is dreſs'ddressed up, if it tend to defame a man and to diminiſh his Reputation, it …
John Tillotson · Of Evil-Speaking · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… craft callings; ſome plaid the Shoomakers, others ſate at the Loom, others kill'd and dreſſ'ddressed ſheep, and they did not ſtick to boaſt, that under the diſguiſe of ſuch …
With rule
… craft callings; ſome plaid the Shoomakers, others ſate at the Loom, others kill'd and dreſſ'ddressed ſheep, and they did not ſtick to boaſt, that under the diſguiſe of ſuch …
Thomas Danson · The Quakers Wisdom Descendeth not from Above · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
That might have dress'ddressed my wounds, when thus they smarted:
With rule
That might have dress'ddressed my wounds, when thus they smarted:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
This is Gods hat, now I am dreſs'ddressed indeed,
With rule
This is Gods hat, now I am dreſs'ddressed indeed,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe rules, they did never eat with Pagans, or of any meat, they had dreſs'ddressed, for fear, there might have been ſome lard in it, or ſome other mixture …
With rule
… theſe rules, they did never eat with Pagans, or of any meat, they had dreſs'ddressed, for fear, there might have been ſome lard in it, or ſome other mixture …
Jean Daille · Forty-nine Sermons upon Colossians · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than the fourtieth, fiftieth, or at leaſt the ſixtieth part of the kinds already dreſs'ddressed and prepared, as Wheat Fann'd, Oyl and Wine, Corn in the Ear taken from …
With rule
… than the fourtieth, fiftieth, or at leaſt the ſixtieth part of the kinds already dreſs'ddressed and prepared, as Wheat Fann'd, Oyl and Wine, Corn in the Ear taken from …
John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against what might defile the Conscience, or, as the word signifies, elaborately wrought and dress'ddressed his conscience. Think you, that other things cannot be done without diligence, and intention …
With rule
… against what might defile the Conscience, or, as the word signifies, elaborately wrought and dress'ddressed his conscience. Think you, that other things cannot be done without diligence, and intention …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 162 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.