Charlie Chaplin) are homophones. Using the principles of rhyming slang Burgess uses Charlie Chaplin as a synonym for 'chaplain' and shortens it to . = 'money' rhymes with bread and butter, a wilful alteration of bread and honey 'money'. = 'money' Another colloquial expression used to describe the concept 'money' is . rhymes with pretty polly, which is the name of an English folk song and in the world of A Clockwork Orange becomes a new expression for 'money'. = 'corny' = 'fun' Fun means 'gang violence' in the context of the story. See also Runglish Newspeak Verlan Polari List of nadsat words List of fictional languages References General bibliography Aggeler, Geoffrey. "Pelagius and Augustine in the novels of Anthony Burgess". English Studies 55 (1974): 43–55. . Burgess, Anthony (1990). You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. . . Gladsky, Rita K. "Schema Theory and Literary Texts: Anthony Burgess' Nadsat. Language Quarterly 30:1–2 (Winter–Spring 1992): 39–46. External links A Clockwork Orange English-based argots Future dialects Russian slang Constructed languages Constructed languages introduced in 1962