George Orwell's Six Elementary Rules

In his essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell offered the following ‘six elementary rules’ for writers:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word when a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive voice when you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rule sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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