1. Newspeak From 1984. Try to follow along. These are actual examples from the novel.

2. Newspeak: times 17.3.84 bb speech malreported africa rectify Translation: Times newspaper, on the 17 th of March, 1984, inaccurately reported on the Big Brother speech about the situation in Africa. Records need to be altered or “rectified” to match BB’s comments.

3. Newspeak: times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify Translation: Times newspaper, on the 14 th of February, 1984, inaccurately quoted the Ministry of Plenty regarding the reduction in the chocolate ration. Records need to be rectified.

4. Newspeak: times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling Translation?

5. “Portmanteaus:” OUR version of Newspeak? Portmanteau: a coined word that blends two other words in form and meaning. Guess what words these portmanteaus come from.

6. Frenemy Friend Enemy

7. Ginormous Gigantic Enormous

8. Pocket Monster

9. Chill Relax

10. Sitcom Situation Comedy

11. Camcorder Camera Recorder

12. Staycation Stay Vacation

13. Liger Lion Tiger

14. Bromance Bro Romance

15. Hangry Hungry Angry

16. Emoticon Emotion Icon :-) :-( :-P :-D XD

17. Tofurkey Tofu Turkey

18. Wintel Windows Intel

19. Motel Motor Hotel

20. Bollywood Bombay Hollywood

21. Spork Spoon Fork

22. Oxbridge Oxford Cambridge

23. Chunnel [English] Channel Tunnel

24. Brunch Breakfast Lunch

25. Cosplay Costume Play

26. Brangelina Brad [Pitt] Angelina [Jolie]

27. Paratrooper Parachute Trooper

28. Cyborg Cybernetic Organism

29. Pro-Am Professional- Amateur

30. Smog Smoke Fog

31. Permafrost Permanent Frost

32. Blog Web Log

33. Turducken Turkey Duck Chicken