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A Word in Your Ear
Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.
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Episodes
A Word in Your Ear: Pub Names and Bar Chat 11.06.2024 24:09
From The Churchill Arms to Ye Old Fighting Cocks, there's a whole "alien" language associated with pub talk.
A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Music 28.05.2024 34:53
Music has the uncanny ability to be understood by anyone, anywhere. But why? And how did music develop its own kind of "language"?
A Word in Your Ear: Feminine and Gendered Language 21.05.2024 24:34
From ships and professions to family structures and pronouns, Roly Sussex navigates the complex web of gendered language.
A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words with Jenny Woodward 14.05.2024 23:09
Wind, clouds and rain... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather words alongside ABC TV Weather Presenter Jenny Woodward.
A Word in Your Ear: Catchy Phrases 07.05.2024 23:34
Flat out like a lizard drinking! ABC's Roly Sussex discusses catchy phrases.
A Word In Your Ear: Phonetics and The Sounds of Language 30.04.2024 22:49
Lips, tongue, teeth and cheeks... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses the sounds of language.
A Word In Your Ear: The Anzac Legacy in Language 23.04.2024 23:48
Tell me a furphy... What is a brass razoo? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses language used during wartime.
A Word In Your Ear: New Words and The Yoghurt Debate 16.04.2024 27:20
Omnishambles? Yoghurt? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses new words and how to pronounce yoghurt.
A Word In Your Ear: Avoidance Language and Rhyming Slang 09.04.2024 18:51
A frog and toad for the road? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses avoidance language and rhyming slang.
A Word in Your Ear: Advertising Language 02.04.2024 20:54
Catchy slogans. Memorable jingles. ABC's Roly Sussex discusses advertising language and memorable catchphrases.
A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words and Easter 26.03.2024 21:02
The Easter Bunny? It's raining cats and dogs? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather phrases and the origins of Easter.
A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get' 19.03.2024 28:47
Hang in there. Get over it. Put up with it. How did these peculiar and 'improper' phrases come to pervade the English language?
A Word in Your Ear: Sports Idioms 12.03.2024 25:18
Football or soccer? From kicking goals to putting the ball in their court, Roly Sussex discusses his favourite sports idioms.
A Word in Your Ear: Syllables and Full Stops 06.03.2024 22:31
White house? Mardi Gras? Roly Sussex discusses the muddling of syllables, and the changing face of the full stop.
A Word in Your Ear: Animal Words 28.02.2024 27:51
Catfishing? Dogfishing? And what about breadcrumbing? Roly unveils the surprising origins of animal-based words, and the unexpected impact those words have had on the language of dating.
A Word in Your Ear: Month Pronounciation 21.02.2024 24:08
Feb-RAR-y? Feb-RY? Feb-YOR-ary? How do you say February?
A Word in Your Ear: Love Language 14.02.2024 27:03
I love you. I adore you. I'm smitten. You drive me crazy. I need you. But why?
A Word in Your Ear: Stress & Emphasis 07.02.2024 27:02
Should you stress about stress in words? Roly Sussex explains the surprising origins for why we emphasise the things we do.
A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciation & Enunciation 31.01.2024 23:34
Kilometre or KILO-metre? Addicting or addictive? And should you drop the 't' in comfortable?
A Word in Your Ear: English spelling 24.01.2024 22:43
From utes to the quirks of the English language, Roly Sussex is here to answer all your linguistic questions.
A Word in Your Ear: Words of the Year 17.01.2024 25:49
From "authentic" to "Matildas", Roly Sussex returns with some of his favourite words of the past annum.
A Word in Your Ear: The World of Names 30.11.2023 24:12
What are the cultural origins of our names? What makes them more feminine or masculine? And when did middle names become a thing?
A Word in Your Ear: Advertising jingles 23.11.2023 23:44
From jingles about sun safety to songs about vegemite, Australia's advertising history is full of iconic earworms. But why were they so successful?
A Word in Your Ear: Insults 16.11.2023 22:06
Insults are hardly features of polite conversation, but some might say we've gotten a bit soft.
A Word in Your Ear: Capitals and Capitalisation 09.11.2023 25:51
How did we decide what should be capitalised, and what should be lowercase? And why do we capitalise 'I' but not 'me'?
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