Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9722 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pay'dpaid

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

Puritas changed it: 147 times in 86 works
Consistency: 98.0% (147 of 150)
Reach if approved: ~158 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: paid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 150 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (147 changes in 86 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 147)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Come have a good Heart Stephen; thy Rent's pay'dpaid too, lad.
With rule
Come have a good Heart Stephen; thy Rent's pay'dpaid too, lad.
Samuel Shaw · The Different Humors of Men · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Converts: Think often with your ſelves whoſe you are, and what a Price was pay'dpaid to redeem you from all Iniquity, and to make you Zealous of good works …
With rule
… Converts: Think often with your ſelves whoſe you are, and what a Price was pay'dpaid to redeem you from all Iniquity, and to make you Zealous of good works …
Nathanael Vincent · The Conversion of the Soul · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were over, was ſpent in Revelling and Jollity: And This as Gods Houſe, they pay'dpaid great Reverence to. They Enjoy'd the Temples of the Heathen, only new conſecrated and …
With rule
… were over, was ſpent in Revelling and Jollity: And This as Gods Houſe, they pay'dpaid great Reverence to. They Enjoy'd the Temples of the Heathen, only new conſecrated and …
Thomas De Laune · The Image of the Beast · Open in the reader
Printed
… as their Mediator, Head, and Husband, is accounted as done by themselves; he having pay'dpaid their debt as their Surety, they receive their discharge, and shall never come into …
With rule
… as their Mediator, Head, and Husband, is accounted as done by themselves; he having pay'dpaid their debt as their Surety, they receive their discharge, and shall never come into …
Thomas Adams · The Main Principles of the Christian Religion in 107 Articles · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who pay'dpaid the price, and was not sure
With rule
Who pay'dpaid the price, and was not sure
David Dickson · True Christian Love to be Sung with any of the Common Tunes of the Psalms · Open in the reader
Printed
A thousand silver shekels pay'dpaid,
With rule
A thousand silver shekels pay'dpaid,
Arthur Hildersham · The Song of Solomon Paraphrased · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
For all your debts are pay'dpaid.
With rule
For all your debts are pay'dpaid.
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Melody · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… miseries attending that condition, by the intervention or interposition of a price or Ransome pay'dpaid by the Redeemer to him by whose Authority the Captive was detained.
With rule
… miseries attending that condition, by the intervention or interposition of a price or Ransome pay'dpaid by the Redeemer to him by whose Authority the Captive was detained.
John Owen · Of Communion with God · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.