Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9993 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

neighbour'sneighbor's

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

Puritas changed it: 219 times in 117 works
Consistency: 97.3% (219 of 225)
Reach if approved: ~236 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 225 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: neighbor (6)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (219 changes in 117 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 219)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… plead for himſelf thus: I a mercileſs and uncharitable perſon, who ſo ſupply my Neighbour'sNeighbor's neceſſities upon all occaſions with my mony, which is always ready for him to …
With rule
… plead for himſelf thus: I a mercileſs and uncharitable perſon, who ſo ſupply my Neighbour'sNeighbor's neceſſities upon all occaſions with my mony, which is always ready for him to …
Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their safety, foreign. Phil. 2.4. Look every man to the things of others. To maintain our Neighbour'sNeighbor's good Estate in his Profit, Honour, Fame. Spiritual Blessings should be aimed at by …
With rule
… their safety, foreign. Phil. 2.4. Look every man to the things of others. To maintain our Neighbour'sNeighbor's good Estate in his Profit, Honour, Fame. Spiritual Blessings should be aimed at by …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 998 · Open in the reader
Printed
Article VI. A Man having committed Adultery with his Neighbour'sNeighbor's Wife, if it be afterward diſcovered, he ſhall not marry the Adultereſs, becauſe of …
With rule
Article VI. A Man having committed Adultery with his Neighbour'sNeighbor's Wife, if it be afterward diſcovered, he ſhall not marry the Adultereſs, becauſe of …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath Wiſdom to know where to beſtow his Gifts. Alas he ſees, that thy Neighbour'sNeighbor's high Eſtate, and thy high Spirit would undo thee: he knows what's fit for …
With rule
… hath Wiſdom to know where to beſtow his Gifts. Alas he ſees, that thy Neighbour'sNeighbor's high Eſtate, and thy high Spirit would undo thee: he knows what's fit for …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 175 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſo, yet it is a defamation, and tends to the prejudice of our neighbour'sneighbor's reputation: And it is a fault to ſay the evil of others which is …
With rule
… be ſo, yet it is a defamation, and tends to the prejudice of our neighbour'sneighbor's reputation: And it is a fault to ſay the evil of others which is …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 4 · p. 422 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then to look to the Children. At Five a-Clock she went to a Neighbour'sNeighbor's House, and knocked at the Door, but they would not rise: At Six she …
With rule
… then to look to the Children. At Five a-Clock she went to a Neighbour'sNeighbor's House, and knocked at the Door, but they would not rise: At Six she …
Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his own children, ſervants and cattel; but every man lookt upon what was his neighbour'sneighbor's, as his own, foreign, that there might be, as much as was poſſible, a communion …
With rule
… his own children, ſervants and cattel; but every man lookt upon what was his neighbour'sneighbor's, as his own, foreign, that there might be, as much as was poſſible, a communion …
Simon Patrick · The Book of Proverbs Paraphrased · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. No. VVe must not covet our neighbour'sneighbor's house, wife, goods, nor any thing that is his, Exod. XX. 17.
With rule
A. No. VVe must not covet our neighbour'sneighbor's house, wife, goods, nor any thing that is his, Exod. XX. 17.
Clement Ellis · The Lambs of Christ Fed with Sincere Milk of the Word · p. 43 · 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.