Appendix:George Orwell

George Orwell is a British journalist and novelist famous for his political writing. In many pieces—particularly the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four—he coined terms which have become popular idioms.

• Big Brother
• cold war
• doublethink
• memory hole
• newspeak
• Room 101
• thought police
• thoughtcrime

Also, the term Orwellian is used to refer to situations which have oppressive governments.