Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9855 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

talk'dtalked

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

Puritas changed it: 176 times in 137 works
Consistency: 98.3% (176 of 179)
Reach if approved: ~188 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: talked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 179 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 137 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
When thou wouldst talk, then haue I talk'dtalked with thee,
With rule
When thou wouldst talk, then haue I talk'dtalked with thee,
George Wither · Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented · Open in the reader
Printed
… been seen to Open, and many old Hereticks to have risen, and walk'd, and talk'dtalked, and preach'd, and printed Books; whom we verily believed to have been as dead …
With rule
… been seen to Open, and many old Hereticks to have risen, and walk'd, and talk'dtalked, and preach'd, and printed Books; whom we verily believed to have been as dead …
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done somewhat that tended to my Edification, and when you had all this while talk'dtalked for the Entity of futurity that you would have deigned to tell me what …
With rule
… done somewhat that tended to my Edification, and when you had all this while talk'dtalked for the Entity of futurity that you would have deigned to tell me what …
Richard Baxter · An End of Doctrinal Controversies · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
The firſt that talk'dtalked very high, was Leo the firſt, who called himſelf the Head of the Catholick …
With rule
The firſt that talk'dtalked very high, was Leo the firſt, who called himſelf the Head of the Catholick …
Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no higher but to ſee what manner of perſon Chriſt was, being ſo much talk'dtalked of abroad; And there Salvation meets both him and his houſe.
With rule
… no higher but to ſee what manner of perſon Chriſt was, being ſo much talk'dtalked of abroad; And there Salvation meets both him and his houſe.
Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
Free-Will's more talk'dtalked of, than well underſtood;
With rule
Free-Will's more talk'dtalked of, than well underſtood;
Thomas Grantham · Dialogue Between the Baptist and the Presbyterian · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were never intended to be follow'd and perform'd, but only to be prais'd and talk'dtalked of. And I cannot do more right to those neglected Graces, than to shew …
With rule
… were never intended to be follow'd and perform'd, but only to be prais'd and talk'dtalked of. And I cannot do more right to those neglected Graces, than to shew …
John Kettlewell · Funeral Sermon for Lady Frances Digby · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hundred years after the Reformation, t'would have been little short of Treason to have talk'dtalked of. They have made their Church-Government, by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-Deacons …
With rule
… hundred years after the Reformation, t'would have been little short of Treason to have talk'dtalked of. They have made their Church-Government, by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-Deacons …
Cotton Mather · An Idea of the Reformation in England and History of Non-Conformity · p. 63 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

History of the War with Indian Savages A88924

Printed
… the Spies had found no Town ſo Secure as That. And now, what was Talk'dTalked at Quebeck in the month of May, muſt be Done at Oyſter River in …
With rule
… the Spies had found no Town ſo Secure as That. And now, what was Talk'dTalked at Quebeck in the month of May, muſt be Done at Oyſter River in …
Cotton Mather · History of the War with Indian Savages · p. 120 · Open in the reader