Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9661 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swallow'dswallowed

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

Puritas changed it: 227 times in 147 works
Consistency: 97.0% (227 of 234)
Reach if approved: ~246 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swallowed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 234 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (227 changes in 147 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 227)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he fills with his Preſence may be filled with his Praiſe: We ſhould be ſwallow'dswallowed up in admirations of the Immenſity of God, as men are at the firſt …
With rule
… he fills with his Preſence may be filled with his Praiſe: We ſhould be ſwallow'dswallowed up in admirations of the Immenſity of God, as men are at the firſt …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… another; for amidst all this worldly glory and lustre, you shall see some women swallow'dswallowed up of pleasures, slaves to other Fashions & Faces, who out of daintiness have almost …
With rule
… another; for amidst all this worldly glory and lustre, you shall see some women swallow'dswallowed up of pleasures, slaves to other Fashions & Faces, who out of daintiness have almost …
Pierre du Moulin Sr · Mans Looking-Glass · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Exhortation seems to be that all their little heats and animosities should be swallow'dswallowed up in an unanimous zeal for the great Gospel Truths wherein they were all …
With rule
… the Exhortation seems to be that all their little heats and animosities should be swallow'dswallowed up in an unanimous zeal for the great Gospel Truths wherein they were all …
Matthew Henry · Inquiry into the True Nature of Schism · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
They are for ever ſwallow'dswallowed up
With rule
They are for ever ſwallow'dswallowed up
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Songs · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
How many ships in quick-sands swallow'dswallowed been!
With rule
How many ships in quick-sands swallow'dswallowed been!
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… made a new thing, to shew his detestation of this sin, and the Earth swallow'dswallowed it in the Commission, and all that were alli'd and appertain'd to them that …
With rule
… made a new thing, to shew his detestation of this sin, and the Earth swallow'dswallowed it in the Commission, and all that were alli'd and appertain'd to them that …
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in that Honourable Name of the United Brethren, all the old distinguishing Notes being swallow'dswallowed up in that one more commendable: And therefore whosoever should go off, must be …
With rule
… in that Honourable Name of the United Brethren, all the old distinguishing Notes being swallow'dswallowed up in that one more commendable: And therefore whosoever should go off, must be …
Vincent Alsop · Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
The opening earth, her and her Cart up ſwallow'dswallowed.
With rule
The opening earth, her and her Cart up ſwallow'dswallowed.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Bostonian Ebenezer B09511

Printed
… the famous Town of Port Royal in Jamaica, which you know, was t'other Day Swallow'dSwallowed up, in a Stupendous Earthquake, that juſt before the Earthquake the People were Violently …
With rule
… the famous Town of Port Royal in Jamaica, which you know, was t'other Day Swallow'dSwallowed up, in a Stupendous Earthquake, that juſt before the Earthquake the People were Violently …
Cotton Mather · The Bostonian Ebenezer · p. 29 · Open in the reader