  stanley unwin (7 june 1911 &ndash; 12 january 2002),gro register of deaths: jan 2002 25b 14 daventry &ndash; stanley unwin, dob = 7 june 1911, aged 90. sometimes billed as "professor" stanley unwin, was a british comedian, actor and comic writer, and the inventor of his own 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 that she had "falolloped (fallen) over" and "grazed her kneeclabbers". ==early life== unwin's parents, ivan oswald unwin and his wife jessie elizabeth, emigrated from the united kingdom to south africa in the early 1900s. their son was born in pretoria in 1911. following his father's death in 1914, unwin's mother arranged for the family to return to britain. by 1919, unwin had been sent to the national children's home in congleton, cheshire. in the late 1920s, he studied radio, television and languages at regent street polytechnic (now the university of westminster) in london. in 1937, he married his wife frances, with whom he had two daughters and a son. unwin later stated that unwinese had its roots in enlivening the bedtime stories that he used to tell his children. in 1940, he was given a job in transmitter maintenance for the bbc, and was assigned to the borough hill transmitting station in daventry. unwin, frances and 
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