A Word in Your Ear:The most popular words of 2014
Prof Roly Sussex has a list of new and most popular words of the year
View ArticleA word in your ear:your language questions answered
Professor Roly Sussex brings you the language podcast to challenge even the best wordsmith.
View ArticleA word in your ear: dictionaries
Professor Roly Sussex discusses dictionaries and the new words that made it in 2014.
View ArticleA word in your ear: the origin of names
Professor Roly Sussex examines what is in a name.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Wouldn't be dead for quids
Roly explains why we are obsessed with the language of death.
View ArticleA word in your ear - The language of the Garden
Prof Roly and guest Robert Bateman explain the origin of the language used in gardening.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Pronunciation of place names
Why the spelling of the place names don't match the pronunciation..
View ArticleA word in your ear - Garden language
Prof Roly and guest Robert Bateman explain the origin of the language used in gardening.
View ArticleA word in your ear: When things go up or down.
Professor Roly Sussex explains when to use 'Up' or 'Down'
View ArticleA word in your ear: Past, present and future tense.
Prof Roly Sussex explains the correct use of past, present and future tense.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Knock off and pick up.
Prof Roly Sussex explains the use of phrasal verbs .
View ArticleA word in your ear: speech acts
Professor Roly Sussex explains speech acts - how we use words to make messages.
View ArticleA word in your ear: onomatopoeia
Professor Roly Sussex asks what sound a dog makes in your language.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Abbreviating words
Prof Roly Sussex explains the Australian habit to shorten words
View ArticleA word in your ear: Irregular plurals.
Roly Sussex explains why English has so many irregular plural words.
View ArticleA word in your ear: plurals
Professor Roly Sussex says plurals started to suffer once Latin disappeared from the classroom.
View ArticleA word in your ear: cliches and idioms
Professor Roly Sussex on how to avoid clich like the plague!
View ArticleA word in your ear: the language of wine
Professor Roly Sussex and special guest, wine judge and maker, PJ Charteris spill the grapes on wine lingo.
View ArticleA word in your ear: lost in translation
Professor Roly Sussex discusses how the meaning of words can be lost in translation.
View ArticleA word in your ear: favourite words to say
Professor Roly Sussex discusses some of the words that just roll off the tongue.
View ArticleA word in your ear: confusing pronunciations
Professor Roly Sussex takes the confusion out of pronunciation.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Indigenous languages
Des Crump from the State Library of Queensland told Professor Roly Sussex that the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages are either extinct or endangered.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Latin refresher
Professor Roly Sussex helps us to brush up on our Latin.
View ArticleA word in your ear: Latin prefixes
Professor Roly Sussex helps us to have fun with Latin prefixes.
View ArticleA word in your ear: pluralia tantum
Professor Roly Sussex discusses plural only nouns, and there are lots of them!
View ArticleA word in your ear: Mate!
Professor Roly Sussex asks if the word "mate" is becoming less blokey?
View ArticleA word in your ear: how to address a woman
Professor Roly Sussex navigates the tricky terrain of how to address women. Which terms are ok, who should use them and when?
View ArticleA word in your ear: technology and language
Professor Roly Sussex examines the impact technology has had on the English language.
View ArticleA word in your ear: reviving lost languages
Professor Roly Sussex says there are 6,900 languages left in the world, but only a third of these are written down.
View ArticleA word in your ear: busting language myths
Professor Roly Sussex sets the record straight on some common language myths.
View ArticleA word in your ear: learning a second language
Professor Roly Sussex says learning another language is cognitively good for you.
View ArticleA word in your ear: punctuation
Professor Roly Sussex reminds us that a comma can be the difference between Let's Eat Grandpa and Let's Eat, Grandpa!
View ArticleA word in your ear: rhyming slang
Professor Roly Sussex takes a Captain Cook at rhyming slang.
View ArticleA word in your ear: the pun that you want!
Professor Roly Sussex, the man with golden puns, has some fun with words!
View ArticleA word in your ear: pronunciation
Professor Roly Sussex examines words open to mispronunciation.
View ArticleA word in your ear: in defence of Aussie English
Professor Roly Sussex combats those criticising Australians of being poor and lazy communicators.
View ArticleA word in your ear: word of the year
Professor Roly Sussex on the significance of emojis in the Oxford Dictionary.
View ArticleA word in your ear: conversation conventions
Professor Roly Sussex opens up the phone lines to answer your questions about language, and examines conversation conventions.
View ArticleA word in your ear: more insults and a toolbox talk
Professor Roly Sussex is brimming with answers to the homework set by listeners!
View ArticleA word in your ear: is English a sexist language?
Professor Roly Sussex asks when is a man mansplaining?
View ArticleA word in your ear: suffixes
Professor Roly Sussex looks at the origin of suffixes and how we know which one to use.
View ArticleA word in your ear: gender and language
Professor Roly Sussex examines whether the English language has become gender neutral.
View ArticleA word in your ear: the language of discrimination
Professor Roly Sussex discusses those words we use, deliberately or not, that are hurtful.
View ArticleA word in your ear: swearing
Professor Roly Sussex does a damn fine job of looking at the changing boundaries when it comes to what language we deem offensive.
View ArticleA word in your ear: English and its influences
Professor Roly Sussex discusses the many words from other languages in use in the English speaking world.
View ArticleA word in your ear
Do you want to know if "whom" is still used in English? Are you in two minds about using Americanisms like "incentivate"? Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield,...
View ArticleA word in your ear: military terminology
Professor Roly Sussex talks furphies and other words with a military origin.
View ArticleA word in your ear: the Woofties
Professor Roly Sussex has recorded almost 350 Woofties - or words of the day.
View ArticleA word in your ear: mispronunciations
Professor Roly Sussex tackles the words we love to mispronounce.
View ArticleSmartphone keyboards designed for traditional languages at cutting edge of...
A software firm develops smartphone keyboards specifically designed to write in traditional languages to help people protect their language.
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