Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9949 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

err'derred

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

Puritas changed it: 91 times in 70 works
Consistency: 95.7% (91 of 95)
Reach if approved: ~100 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: erred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 95 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (91 changes in 70 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 91)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… must be thy advantage; for be assured it came from that mouth which never err'derred, a Kingdome thus divided cannot stand; how neare likewise are his words accomplish'… I …
With rule
… must be thy advantage; for be assured it came from that mouth which never err'derred, a Kingdome thus divided cannot stand; how neare likewise are his words accomplish'… I …
Edward Reynolds · Great Britains Distractions · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who knew not, whether they went right, or err'derred?
With rule
Who knew not, whether they went right, or err'derred?
George Wither · A Considering Glass · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall do by way of retractation, and correction of Any thing wherein I have err'derred in this matter; and what will be as an Anſwer of an Objection, that …
With rule
… ſhall do by way of retractation, and correction of Any thing wherein I have err'derred in this matter; and what will be as an Anſwer of an Objection, that …
Thomas Beverley · The Great Charter for the Interpretation of All Prophecy · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
H. T. further ſaith. Ob. The Fathers err'derred ſome in one thing ſome in another. Anſw. A part I grant, all together …
With rule
H. T. further ſaith. Ob. The Fathers err'derred ſome in one thing ſome in another. Anſw. A part I grant, all together …
John Tombes · Romanism Discussed · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Indeed if we had two lives in succession allowed us for tryal, and having err'derred in our choice of Happiness in the first, might correct our errour in a …
With rule
… Indeed if we had two lives in succession allowed us for tryal, and having err'derred in our choice of Happiness in the first, might correct our errour in a …
William Bates · The Sovereign and Final Happiness of Man with Means to Obtain it · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… has been (and will be till reform'd) the Reproach of Chriſtianity, that Preachers have err'derred on both Extreams, ſome talk Nonſenſe, ſome talk above common-Senſe. I have (ſaies …
With rule
… has been (and will be till reform'd) the Reproach of Chriſtianity, that Preachers have err'derred on both Extreams, ſome talk Nonſenſe, ſome talk above common-Senſe. I have (ſaies …
Thomas De Laune · Compulsion of Conscience Condemned · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Altarage in whole, or in part? the Negative ſeems (ſays he) to be in…err'derred from the Text of that Canon; but in his own opinion he is of …
With rule
… Altarage in whole, or in part? the Negative ſeems (ſays he) to be in…err'derred from the Text of that Canon; but in his own opinion he is of …
John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will declare, who would have thought that Polycarpus on the one side could have err'derred in what he saw Saint Iohn doe, or Anicetus Bishop of Rome on the …
With rule
… will declare, who would have thought that Polycarpus on the one side could have err'derred in what he saw Saint Iohn doe, or Anicetus Bishop of Rome on the …
John Milton · Of Prelatical Episcopacy · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Discourse Upon the Powers of the World to Come A76490

Printed
… God againſt the Iſraelites, That they ſaw his Works forty years, and yet always Err'dErred in their Hearts, and did not know the ways of God, Heb. 3. 9▪ 10. So ſays …
With rule
… God againſt the Iſraelites, That they ſaw his Works forty years, and yet always Err'dErred in their Hearts, and did not know the ways of God, Heb. 3. 9▪ 10. So ſays …
Thomas Beverley · A Discourse Upon the Powers of the World to Come · p. 24 · Open in the reader