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Oo-er Misses: The British Obsession with the Double Entendre

This entry was posted in babble, quirk, showbiz and tagged British, double entendres, double meaning, English, language, word play, Words on October 18, 2013 by Laura Ellis .
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If TV and radio are to be believed, the Britain of the 1960s and ’70s was fraught with sauciness and naughty euphemisms. You couldn’t move for double entendres, with programmes including Round the Horne, Are You Being Served? and more Carry On films than you could shake a stick at. Essentially, a double entendre is(…)

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