Friday 9 June 2017

Anthony Burgess's lost dictionary of slang discovered

Anthony Burgess's lost dictionary of slang discovered

The writer Anthony Burgess invented futuristic slang for his cult novel A Clockwork Orange and was so fascinated by the language of the street that he began work on a dictionary more than 50 years ago. Now his lost dictionary of slang, abandoned after several hundred entries covering three letters, has been discovered.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/03/anthony-burgesss-lost-slang-dictionary-discovered?source=Snapzu

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