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Except for proper names, the spelling checker stopped on two words in the Time paragraphs that were not in its lexicon: show- biz and credentialed . Likewise two words in Pepys's entry gave pause to the checker, though they are not so much lost words as obsolete forms of words: hath and doth . I should add that where Pepys phonetically wrote then he meant than and that he used the adjective handsome to describe his financial condition, as we would rarely do today.
Doth Obuchi protest too much?
Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.
On the one hand, Pepys's English may seem slightly stilted or Biblical by modern standards, with frequent absolute constructions and the use of do as an auxiliary for affirmative verbs where no emphasis is intended, as, for example, in his entry for August 31, 1662, where he thanks “Almighty God, who doth most manifestly bless me in my endeavors to do the duty of my office--I now saving money, and my expenses being very little.”
Though such words as betimes and whither and such forms as doth and hath have dropped out of ordinary usage, today's English-speaking reader of average education can read most of the Diary without encountering any word that would send him to his dictionary.
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