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Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
The Times linked her to the notorious "Cambridge coven" of five male spies--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
In A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess invented an entire dialect (Nadsat, a Russified version of English): I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shoms and govoreeting slovos like Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises and all that cal.
The interesting thing in the book is its words list, taken from a relatively small corpus of books including ones by Burgess, Vonnegut, and (especially) Alexander Theroux ( Darconville's Cat ), all of them writers who enjoy playing with the language.
Well, I'm off to bed now, for good re-read of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962).