Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9864 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wer'twert

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 78 works
Consistency: 86.9% (120 of 138)
Reach if approved: ~145 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: were't
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 138 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: werit (18)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 78 works, 86.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Hand by my Dart to lye down in a Bed of Eternal Sorrows. Thou wer'twert for digging to thy ſelf a Way to Heaven; and haſt refuſed the, Heb …
With rule
… Hand by my Dart to lye down in a Bed of Eternal Sorrows. Thou wer'twert for digging to thy ſelf a Way to Heaven; and haſt refuſed the, Heb …
Richard Davis · Sermon at Funeral of John Bigg · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy very life and being, and wer'twert laying daily plots of self-destruction, thou wer'twert not so wickedly unnatural. He is more intimate to thee than thou art to …
With rule
… thy very life and being, and wer'twert laying daily plots of self-destruction, thou wer'twert not so wickedly unnatural. He is more intimate to thee than thou art to …
John Howe · Delighting in God · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all that ever ſhe knew of Chriſt, and ſo ſaith Paul, I would thou wer'twert ſuch as I am, except theſe hods, Acts 26. 29. Oh, how did his ſoul long …
With rule
… all that ever ſhe knew of Chriſt, and ſo ſaith Paul, I would thou wer'twert ſuch as I am, except theſe hods, Acts 26. 29. Oh, how did his ſoul long …
Robert Ottee · Characters in Blood · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
While thou wer'twert here we thought thee Womankind,
With rule
While thou wer'twert here we thought thee Womankind,
John Tutchin · Poems on Several Occasions · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſw. A ſinner? a great ſinner? Alas, wer'twert thou not ſuch a one, what ſhouldeſt thou do with a Chriſt? what ſhould …
With rule
Anſw. A ſinner? a great ſinner? Alas, wer'twert thou not ſuch a one, what ſhouldeſt thou do with a Chriſt? what ſhould …
John Brinsley · The Mystical Brazen Serpent · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
And, wer'twert by him a fruitfull Mother made,
With rule
And, wer'twert by him a fruitfull Mother made,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſweet company, a bleſſed ſocietie and fellowſhip of Saints? O my ſoul; how happie wer'twert thou to be with them! yea, how happie will that day be to thee …
With rule
… ſweet company, a bleſſed ſocietie and fellowſhip of Saints? O my ſoul; how happie wer'twert thou to be with them! yea, how happie will that day be to thee …
Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… violent upon them, that they cannot hold them any longer: Oh, therefore if thou wer'twert once ſo and ſo, but now waſhed, now no ſuch ulcers and ſores are …
With rule
… violent upon them, that they cannot hold them any longer: Oh, therefore if thou wer'twert once ſo and ſo, but now waſhed, now no ſuch ulcers and ſores are …
Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 191 · 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.