This week at A.Word.A.Day, words from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that have entered the English language. Today’s entry: unperson. In Orwell’s novel, the word is applied to a Comrade Withers, once honored, now disgraced and to be struck from the historical record: “He did not exist: he had never existed.”
Previously: newspeak, doublethink, Big Brother.
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Words from Nineteen Eighty-Four
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