Tags: Language.
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange. In addition to being a novelist Burgess was also a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name itself comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of ‘-teen’ as in ‘thirteen’ (-надцать -nadtsat’). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the book.