#4: Norwich

The Cru gets a wee bit saucy with this one.  Murph shines with lubricious limericks that showcase the raunchiest of WWII postal codewords.  Be warned: you'd best listen with headphones. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: NORWICH. An acronym based (phonetically) on the initial letters of ‘(k)nickers off ready when I come home’, one of the more lubricious of such initialisms for which there was a craze in the mid-20th century. They usually appeared on the envelopes of love letters (a less steamy example was SWALK, ’sealed with a loving kiss’), fashion for them probably got going among servicemen overseas in the Second World War.More secret sexy codes your grandparents may have used:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_postal_acronymsLike this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.