Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9908 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

borrow'dborrowed

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 77 works
Consistency: 97.5% (118 of 121)
Reach if approved: ~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: borrowed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 77 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… defence against him. To disingage him and the Kingdom, great sums were to be borrow'dborrowed, which would never have bin lent, nor could ever be repaid, had the King …
With rule
… defence against him. To disingage him and the Kingdom, great sums were to be borrow'dborrowed, which would never have bin lent, nor could ever be repaid, had the King …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that at its firſt appearance it had a mixture of divers colours, which it borrow'dborrowed from Mercury, ſo became a Mercurial Star, and betokening a mixture of differing Diſpenſations …
With rule
… that at its firſt appearance it had a mixture of divers colours, which it borrow'dborrowed from Mercury, ſo became a Mercurial Star, and betokening a mixture of differing Diſpenſations …
Christopher Ness · Upon the Blazing Star · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
Are borrow'dborrowed from his light.
With rule
Are borrow'dborrowed from his light.
Samuel Shaw · The Voice of One Crying in a Wilderness · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſidered. For, 1ſt. It ſeems … look back on the Old Teſtament, and to be borrow'dborrowed from Dan. 7.13. I ſaw in the night …iſ…ns, and behold one like the …
With rule
… conſidered. For, 1ſt. It ſeems … look back on the Old Teſtament, and to be borrow'dborrowed from Dan. 7.13. I ſaw in the night …iſ…ns, and behold one like the …
Samuel Tomlyns · A Discourse of Christs Second Coming · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may be ſure it could not import thus much leſs then Idolatry in the borrow'dborrowed metaphor between God and man, unleſs it ſignifi'd as much leſs then adultery in …
With rule
… may be ſure it could not import thus much leſs then Idolatry in the borrow'dborrowed metaphor between God and man, unleſs it ſignifi'd as much leſs then adultery in …
John Milton · Exposition Upon Marriage or Nullities of Marriage · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prisons, Consiscations, as some express it, or as he more concisely, Executing the Laws, borrow'dborrowed, but from Rome? The Scripture knows it not, the better sort of Heathens abhorr'd …
With rule
… Prisons, Consiscations, as some express it, or as he more concisely, Executing the Laws, borrow'dborrowed, but from Rome? The Scripture knows it not, the better sort of Heathens abhorr'd …
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of ſome of the Learned Heathens which look a little this way, were both borrow'dborrowed and deprav'd. What was true in them, was not their own, but learnt by …
With rule
… of ſome of the Learned Heathens which look a little this way, were both borrow'dborrowed and deprav'd. What was true in them, was not their own, but learnt by …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… King's and Ruler's ought to be Chriſt's Homagers is, That as their Power is borrow'dborrowed, ſo alſo it is ad Placitum (not abſolute and independent), and that two ways …
With rule
… King's and Ruler's ought to be Chriſt's Homagers is, That as their Power is borrow'dborrowed, ſo alſo it is ad Placitum (not abſolute and independent), and that two ways …
Richard Gilpin · An Assize Sermon · p. 7 · 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.

The Different Humors of Men A59606

Printed
Borrow'dBorrowed! I ſcorn your words, I bought 'em all.
With rule
Borrow'dBorrowed! I ſcorn your words, I bought 'em all.
Samuel Shaw · The Different Humors of Men · p. 30 · Open in the reader