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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9839 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

recall'drecalled

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

Puritas changed it
99 times in 70 works
Consistency
96.1% (99 of 103)
Reach if approved
~108 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: recalled
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
103 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (99 changes in 70 works, 96.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 99)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … tongues loosed, Another Parliament must be call'd, even that which because it cannot be recall'drecalled must be mis-call'd, because it would not (at least for a time) be …
    With rule
    … tongues loosed, Another Parliament must be call'd, even that which because it cannot be recall'drecalled must be mis-call'd, because it would not (at least for a time) be …

    Edward Bowles · Plain English · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … they have ſince done, and yet do to theſe poor Wretches. They have not recall'drecalled the Dragoons and other Soldiers which they diſpatcht into the Provinces before the Edict …
    With rule
    … they have ſince done, and yet do to theſe poor Wretches. They have not recall'drecalled the Dragoons and other Soldiers which they diſpatcht into the Provinces before the Edict …

    Jean Claude · Account of the Persecutions of the Protestants in France · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Will and is dead, that Will is presently in force, and can never be recall'drecalled. Besides the will of the dead is sacred with men. They dare not cross …
    With rule
    … Will and is dead, that Will is presently in force, and can never be recall'drecalled. Besides the will of the dead is sacred with men. They dare not cross …

    John Flavel · The Fountain of Life · p. 538 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Elfer Duke of Mercia, whom the King for ſome offence had baniſh'd but now recall'drecalled, ſent from London with a Fleet to ſurpriſe the Danes, in ſome place of …
    With rule
    … Elfer Duke of Mercia, whom the King for ſome offence had baniſh'd but now recall'drecalled, ſent from London with a Fleet to ſurpriſe the Danes, in ſome place of …

    John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 243 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … I deliver thee, Iſrael? Pſal. 78.38. Many a time he turned his anger away. He recall'drecalled, or order'd his anger to return, (as one expreſſes it) as if he were …
    With rule
    … I deliver thee, Iſrael? Pſal. 78.38. Many a time he turned his anger away. He recall'drecalled, or order'd his anger to return, (as one expreſſes it) as if he were …

    Timothy Rogers · Trouble of the Mind and the Disease of Melancholy · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … peep out a little, as the Sun out of a Cloud, it is quickly recall'drecalled and hidden again, it will not appear in its full beauty, and glory, and …
    With rule
    … peep out a little, as the Sun out of a Cloud, it is quickly recall'drecalled and hidden again, it will not appear in its full beauty, and glory, and …

    George Swinnock · The Sinners Last Sentence · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … with your own Souls. Say, I have lost much time already, never to be recall'drecalled; I have but a little time more to enjoy what now I seem to …
    With rule
    … with your own Souls. Say, I have lost much time already, never to be recall'drecalled; I have but a little time more to enjoy what now I seem to …

    Samuel Hardy · A Second Guide to Heaven · p. 280 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … aboue three thouſand Soules; Now this Act being once receiued, is neuer to bee recall'drecalled, though the Couenant be afterwards neglected and broken; for one entrance ſtands good for …
    With rule
    … aboue three thouſand Soules; Now this Act being once receiued, is neuer to bee recall'drecalled, though the Couenant be afterwards neglected and broken; for one entrance ſtands good for …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 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.