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In the three hundred years since Pepys the general drift of English has been towards a Chinese kind of grammer with loss and confusion of inflection and with phrases used as words.
For a mechanical and therefore objective lexical comparison I did a spelling check with my Q&A software on the first two paragraphs of Time's August 7, 1989, cover story on anchor woman Diane Sawyer and on the slightly longer first entry in Pepys's Diary , dated January 1, 1660.
[Reference throughout this essay is to The Diary of Samuel Pepys , edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970.
Pepys writes, just as we might say but ought not write, “..
On the other hand, Pepys's English, while familiar enough to us, may sound slightly nonstandard, as where past-tense forms and past participles are coalesced.