Article 2S9AR Anthony Burgess's lost, incomplete slang dictionary re-discovered

Anthony Burgess's lost, incomplete slang dictionary re-discovered

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Cory Doctorow
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Burgess's fascination with slang extended well past Nadsat, the synthetic Russo-English dialect he invented for A Clockwork Orange; his autobiography mentions in passing that he'd begun work on a dictionary of slang but gave it up: "I've done A and B and find that a good deal of A and B is out of date or has to be added to, and I could envisage the future as being totally tied up with such a dictionary." (more")

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