"'What’s it going to be then, eh?'"

Author Anthony Burgess was a polyglot, knowing something around ten languages, including Russian. It's no wonder then that the slang he invented for A Clockwork Orange was derived from Slavic languages. Another fun fact: if it wasn't for being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor at the age of 40, we may never have experienced his radical novel about crime and punishment, as the death sentence drove Burgess to write.

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