choice of words down to a minimum.
Newspeak 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 -