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    “Queer”

    Dec 23, 2020 2 minutes

    n 1973, Anthony Burgess wrote in the New Yorker that he first had heard the phrase queer as a clockwork orange in a London pub before the Second World War: "It is an old Cockney slang phrase, implying a queerness or madness so extreme as to subvert nature." Elsewhere, Burgess claimed

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