-speaksuffix

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element, e.g. royalspeak Brit.

/ˈrɔɪəlˌspiːk/, U.S.

/ˈrɔɪ(ə)lˌspik/.

speak v. used, after Orwell's Newspeak and Oldspeak, as a substantival suffix (cf. speak n. 1) to denote a particular variety of language or characteristic mode of speaking.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 51 Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 54 You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak... Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak.

1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You xi. 140 Charlton, his creep-speak effectively silenced, had departed in protest-march style.

1966 Science 13 May 875/1 We read of ‘space speak’ on every hand. Newspapers and magazines discuss it in their science columns... The belief is that the space effort has given us, in addition to the possibility of going to the moon, a new linguistic phenomenon.

1972 College Eng. Jan. 439 (heading) Doublespeak: dialectology in the service of Big Brother.

1980 Times 27 Feb. 14/2 Such emphasizers as undoubtedly (Ponderoso Speak: indubitably)..diminish, if they do not actually destroy the assurance of a statement.

1981 Times 28 Jan. 7/1 (heading) Haigspeak rewrites the grammar.

1981 Guardian 1 May 2/4 ‘I am very sorry that I cannot be with you today... I am most grateful and touched that you have decided to name a locomotive after me,’ it [sc. a telegram] said in classic royalspeak.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	-speak
释义	-speaksuffix Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element, e.g. royalspeak Brit. /ˈrɔɪəlˌspiːk/, U.S. /ˈrɔɪ(ə)lˌspik/. speak v. used, after Orwell's Newspeak and Oldspeak, as a substantival suffix (cf. speak n. 1) to denote a particular variety of language or characteristic mode of speaking. Π 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 51 Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 54 You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak... Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak. 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You xi. 140 Charlton, his creep-speak effectively silenced, had departed in protest-march style. 1966 Science 13 May 875/1 We read of ‘space speak’ on every hand. Newspapers and magazines discuss it in their science columns... The belief is that the space effort has given us, in addition to the possibility of going to the moon, a new linguistic phenomenon. 1972 College Eng. Jan. 439 (heading) Doublespeak: dialectology in the service of Big Brother. 1980 Times 27 Feb. 14/2 Such emphasizers as undoubtedly (Ponderoso Speak: indubitably)..diminish, if they do not actually destroy the assurance of a statement. 1981 Times 28 Jan. 7/1 (heading) Haigspeak rewrites the grammar. 1981 Guardian 1 May 2/4 ‘I am very sorry that I cannot be with you today... I am most grateful and touched that you have decided to name a locomotive after me,’ it [sc. a telegram] said in classic royalspeak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < suffix1949
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