Friday February 10, 2017 at 1:38am
A Clockwork Orange author only managed entries for three letters and his abortive labours were thought to have gone for ever.
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.