was founded on the English language as we now know it, though
many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly-created words,
would be barely intelligible to an English-speaker of our own day.
Newspeak words were divided into three distinct classes, known as the A
vocabulary, the B vocabulary (also called compound words), and the C
vocabulary. It will be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the
grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the
section devoted to the A vocabulary, since the same rules held good for
all three categories.



The A vocabulary. The A vocabulary consisted of the words needed for the
business of everyday life -- for such things as eating, drinking,
working, putting on one?s clothes, going up and down stairs, riding in
vehicles, gardening, cooking, and the like. It was composed almost
entirely of words that we already possess words like hit, run, dog,
tree, sugar, house, field -- but in comparison with the present-day
English vocabulary t