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skreevers & scriobh(ers)
From “Down and Out in Paris and London” (1933) by George Orwell, in which he writes about the street slang of the homeless in London: About half of these words are in the larger dictionaries. It is interesting to guess … Continue reading
wigan pier, the machine
From “The Road to Wigan Pier” by George Orwell, 1937: “To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is almost too obvious and too generally admitted to … Continue reading