George Orwell
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2 Quotations from George Orwell
| newspeak n. | 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 51 Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. |
| unperson n. | 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four v. 160 It was inconceivable that this was anything other than a reference to Syme. But Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson. Any identifiable reference to him would have been mortally dangerous. |