Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer. 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". Early life Unwin's parents, Ivan Oswald Unwin (1880-1914) and his wife Jessie Elizabeth ( Brand; 1883-1968) emigrated from England to the Union of South Africa in the early 1900s. Their son was born in Pretoria in 1911. Following his father's death in 1914, due to the family's poverty Unwin's mother arranged for the
Stanley Unwin (7 de junio de 1911 – 12 de enero de 2002), a veces billetado como profesor Stanley Unwin, fue un actor y escritor cómico británico. Inventó su propio lenguaje cómico, "Unwinese", referido en la película Carry On Regardless (1961) como "gobbledygook". Unwinese era una forma corrupta de inglés en la que muchas de las palabras fueron alteradas en formas juguetonas y humorísticas, como en su descripción de Elvis Presley y sus contemporáneos como "wasp-waist y swivel-hippy". Unwin afirmó que la inspiración vino de su madre, quien una vez le dijo que en el camino a casa había "falolloped (fallen) over" y "grazed her kneeclabbers".