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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9939 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

do'tdoit

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

Puritas changed it
100 times in 58 works
Consistency
100% (100 of 100)
Reach if approved
~105 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
100 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 58 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Pray looke of old, therefore you muſt do'tdoit now:
    With rule
    Pray looke of old, therefore you muſt do'tdoit now:

    William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    To do'tdoit aright, as I desire.
    With rule
    To do'tdoit aright, as I desire.

    Michael Wigglesworth · The Day of Doom · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Th'art drunken ſure, ſober thou would'ſt not do'tdoit,
    With rule
    Th'art drunken ſure, ſober thou would'ſt not do'tdoit,

    Petrus Ramus · Logic in Two Books · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    And next, would wishing do'tdoit, That I were He.
    With rule
    And next, would wishing do'tdoit, That I were He.

    Simon Ford · Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    And much good do'tdoit them with their ignorance.
    With rule
    And much good do'tdoit them with their ignorance.

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I do'tdoit to shew them how each Fingle-fangle,
    With rule
    I do'tdoit to shew them how each Fingle-fangle,

    John Bunyan · A Book for Boys and Girls · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    She'l untertake to do'tdoit, and for her gains
    With rule
    She'l untertake to do'tdoit, and for her gains

    John Griffith · Some Prison Meditations · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … example. God is our Pattern in Love and Compassions, we are well warranted to do'tdoit in this. Men esteem much more of some other vertues that make more shew …
    With rule
    … example. God is our Pattern in Love and Compassions, we are well warranted to do'tdoit in this. Men esteem much more of some other vertues that make more shew …

    Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 53 · 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.