Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9889 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

skill'dskilled

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

Puritas changed it: 316 times in 218 works
Consistency: 96.6% (316 of 327)
Reach if approved: ~344 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: skilled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 327 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (316 changes in 218 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 316)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… near the end of the Beaſts Moons. Every publick Watch man then ſhould be skill'dskilled in the Time of Babylons falling, in the burden of that Dumah, that Edomitiſh …
With rule
… near the end of the Beaſts Moons. Every publick Watch man then ſhould be skill'dskilled in the Time of Babylons falling, in the burden of that Dumah, that Edomitiſh …
Thomas Beverley · The Late Great Revolution in this Nation · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how Sapleſs and Unſavery are all the Pleaſures in the World to a Man skill'dskilled in Divine Meditation? The Phyloſophers that knew little of God, and leſs of the …
With rule
… how Sapleſs and Unſavery are all the Pleaſures in the World to a Man skill'dskilled in Divine Meditation? The Phyloſophers that knew little of God, and leſs of the …
Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… allowed to ſpeak for himſelf before King Agrippa, whom he knew to be well skill'dskilled in the Law, and in the Scriptures, and in all the Queſtions and Cuſtoms …
With rule
… allowed to ſpeak for himſelf before King Agrippa, whom he knew to be well skill'dskilled in the Law, and in the Scriptures, and in all the Queſtions and Cuſtoms …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 293 · Open in the reader
Printed
THere be certain Phyſitians that ſeem at the firſt diſcourſe to be very well skill'dskilled in their Art, and that talk of the Diſeaſes, and their Cauſes, moſt Learnedly …
With rule
THere be certain Phyſitians that ſeem at the firſt diſcourſe to be very well skill'dskilled in their Art, and that talk of the Diſeaſes, and their Cauſes, moſt Learnedly …
Charles Drelincourt · The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it was one condition in the judges of the Sanhedrim, that they ſhould be skill'dskilled in magick that they might detect and Judge others for it. For certainly, then …
With rule
… it was one condition in the judges of the Sanhedrim, that they ſhould be skill'dskilled in magick that they might detect and Judge others for it. For certainly, then …
John Frost · Sermons Preached Upon Sundry Occasions · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of small regard to see to, yet well skill'dskilled
With rule
Of small regard to see to, yet well skill'dskilled
John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… withall have informed him so much, that in what he pretended to be well skill'dskilled, he is a meer novice, and that which he esteemed rare and excellent, to …
With rule
… withall have informed him so much, that in what he pretended to be well skill'dskilled, he is a meer novice, and that which he esteemed rare and excellent, to …
Archibald Argyll · Instructions to a Son · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wiſe and holy perſons than the Prieſts. And indeed if Kings be not better skill'dskilled in God's Word than moſt of the Popiſh Prieſts are, no wonder if they …
With rule
… wiſe and holy perſons than the Prieſts. And indeed if Kings be not better skill'dskilled in God's Word than moſt of the Popiſh Prieſts are, no wonder if they …
Richard Baxter · Of National Churches · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Self-Conflict A31368

Printed
Till ſhe lays laſtly hold. Skill'dSkilled in this fight,
With rule
Till ſhe lays laſtly hold. Skill'dSkilled in this fight,
Jacob Cats · Self-Conflict · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… the next Parliament in the Banquetting-Houſe:) His Highneſs, with Sir Wal. Aſton, better Skill'dSkilled in the Caſtilian Language, Tranſlated the Letter, as their Memories would bear it away …
With rule
… the next Parliament in the Banquetting-Houſe:) His Highneſs, with Sir Wal. Aſton, better Skill'dSkilled in the Caſtilian Language, Tranſlated the Letter, as their Memories would bear it away …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 145 · Open in the reader