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Pepys writes, just as we might say but ought not write, “..
Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.
There are also in Pepys's Diary words and phrases that have been admitted to our standard language but that still sound a bit colloquial.
The same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..
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.