Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

look'tlooked

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

Puritas changed it: 438 times in 260 works
Consistency: 99.5% (438 of 440)
Reach if approved: ~465 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 443 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: lookit (2)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (438 changes in 260 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 438)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… approach of Jehu, painting her face, and tyring her head, and in that garb, look'tlooked out at a window, ſuppoſing that none now would, or could, for pity, lay …
With rule
… approach of Jehu, painting her face, and tyring her head, and in that garb, look'tlooked out at a window, ſuppoſing that none now would, or could, for pity, lay …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 464 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any body else said to him, what hee saw in mee, or what hee look'tlooked for at my hands, but embrace that mercy cheerfully, and thankfully, and attribute it …
With rule
… any body else said to him, what hee saw in mee, or what hee look'tlooked for at my hands, but embrace that mercy cheerfully, and thankfully, and attribute it …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of great men; because they thinke that they are greatly graced when they are look'tlooked after by great men; when as if they did know their owne greatnesse, that …
With rule
… of great men; because they thinke that they are greatly graced when they are look'tlooked after by great men; when as if they did know their owne greatnesse, that …
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
But, when he look'tlooked i… grapes ſhould beare,
With rule
But, when he look'tlooked i… grapes ſhould beare,
George Wither · The Songs of the Old Testament Translated into English Measures · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that duty we owe to that sort of relation. But perhaps these will be look'tlooked on as remote relations (yet 'tis sure they are such as challenge all that …
With rule
… that duty we owe to that sort of relation. But perhaps these will be look'tlooked on as remote relations (yet 'tis sure they are such as challenge all that …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Man · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their great Champion hath to ſay for the Popes infallibility, I could willingly have look'tlooked about me into ſome of the reſt of them, to ſee if they can …
With rule
… their great Champion hath to ſay for the Popes infallibility, I could willingly have look'tlooked about me into ſome of the reſt of them, to ſee if they can …
Richard Baxter · The Safe Religion · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he was no changeling; but how many are there in theſe dayes, who were look'tlooked upon as better men, who have changed their names, their notes, their coats, their …
With rule
… he was no changeling; but how many are there in theſe dayes, who were look'tlooked upon as better men, who have changed their names, their notes, their coats, their …
Thomas Brooks · An Ark for All Gods Noahs · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as a friend that the ſoul can have familiarity withal when as he is look'tlooked upon through Jeſus Chriſt: do thou act all by Chriſt by the ſtrength of …
With rule
… as a friend that the ſoul can have familiarity withal when as he is look'tlooked upon through Jeſus Chriſt: do thou act all by Chriſt by the ſtrength of …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Two Treatises · p. 322 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.