<Li> Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent . </Li> <Li> Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous . </Li> <P> "Politics and the English Language" was first noted in Orwell's payment book of 11 December 1945 . The essay was originally published in the April 1946 issue of the journal Horizon (volume 13, issue 76, pages 252--265); it was Orwell's last major article for the journal . The essay was originally intended for George Weidenfeld's Contact magazine but it was turned down . </P> <P> From the time of his wife's death in March 1945 Orwell had maintained a high work rate, producing some 130 literary contributions, many of them lengthy . Animal Farm had been published in August 1945 and Orwell was experiencing a time of critical and commercial literary success . He was seriously ill in February and was desperate to get away from London to the island of Jura, Scotland, where he wanted to start work on Nineteen Eighty - Four . </P>

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