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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9968 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

if'tifit

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

Puritas changed it
51 times in 29 works
Consistency
100% (51 of 51)
Reach if approved
~54 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
51 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (51 changes in 29 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 51)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    At their own loſſe, if'tifit be their childrens gain.
    With rule
    At their own loſſe, if'tifit be their childrens gain.

    Samuel Clarke · An Antidote Against Immoderate Mourning for the Dead · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    (Which if'tifit offend they may pluck out) not His,
    With rule
    (Which if'tifit offend they may pluck out) not His,

    John Wallis · On the Sad Loss of Robert Lord Brook · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    It longs asmuch as if'tifit had ne're a whit;
    With rule
    It longs asmuch as if'tifit had ne're a whit;

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

  4. Printed
    She'l firſt adviſe if'tifit be not beſt to ſtay.
    With rule
    She'l firſt adviſe if'tifit be not beſt to ſtay.

    Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … good people, hee'le have very good orders in his Family; all this is well; if'tifit would hold; I but if this man doe not goe on to get the …
    With rule
    … good people, hee'le have very good orders in his Family; all this is well; if'tifit would hold; I but if this man doe not goe on to get the …

    William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 276 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    PArdon my fault, if'tifit be preſumption here
    With rule
    PArdon my fault, if'tifit be preſumption here

    John Ley · Sunday a Sabbath · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Thou sayst my Book is good: O, if'tifit be good,
    With rule
    Thou sayst my Book is good: O, if'tifit be good,

    John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    If'tIfit be but for the nonce to keep him thence:
    With rule
    If'tIfit be but for the nonce to keep him thence:

    Robert Wild · The Tragedy of Christopher Love · p. 29 · 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.