1955 "-wise" vector; antedatings of "misty" and "Enjoy!"

[James Harbeck]

What effect on all that do you suppose its inclusion as a Newspeak
adverbial suffix in Orwell's _1984_ (published in 1949) had? Orwell's
book is at least further evidence of its currency in some circles in
the late '40s, but does a feedback effect seem at all likely, given
the negative connotations Newspeak would lend?

James Harbeck.

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