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Stanley Unwin

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Pretoria, United Kingdom
Active
1911–2002
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Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), sometimes known as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.

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He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fallen) over" and "grazed her kneeclabbers".

From Stanley Unwin (comedian) on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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