Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [1177]

Compound words, such as speakwrite, were of course to be found in the A vocabulary, but these were merely convenient abbreviations and had no special ideological colour. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 1177

Note

A compact statement of the A-vocabulary’s purely functional purpose—language stripped of ideological charge as a deliberate design principle of Newspeak.