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A Word in Your Ear

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Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.

Episodes (248)

A Word in Your Ear: Pirate Speak

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 11, 202424:54pending

A Word in Your Ear: French Influences on Cooking Words

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 4, 202423:59pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Gen Alpha

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 28, 202424:57pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of The News

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 21, 202426:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: Hedges and Politeness

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 14, 202422:50pending

A Word in Your Ear: Mispronunciations and Common Mistakes

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 7, 202423:15pending

A Word in Your Ear: English's Newest Words

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 31, 202418:31pending

A Word in Your Ear: The French Language

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 23, 202420:31pending

A Word in Your Ear: Metaphors

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 9, 202425:26pending

A Word in Your Ear: Manners and Politeness

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 2, 202423:43pending

A Word in Your Ear: Grandparents and 'Cold Turkey'

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 26, 202418:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: Written vs Spoken Languages

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 19, 202428:44pending

A Word in Your Ear: Pub Names and Bar Chat

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 11, 202424:09pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Music

A Word in Your Ear

May 28, 202434:53pending

A Word in Your Ear: Feminine and Gendered Language

A Word in Your Ear

May 21, 202424:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words with Jenny Woodward

A Word in Your Ear

May 14, 202423:09pending

A Word in Your Ear: Catchy Phrases

A Word in Your Ear

May 7, 202423:34pending

A Word In Your Ear: Phonetics and The Sounds of Language

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 30, 202422:49pending

A Word In Your Ear: The Anzac Legacy in Language

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 23, 202423:48pending

A Word In Your Ear: New Words and The Yoghurt Debate

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 16, 202427:20pending

A Word In Your Ear: Avoidance Language and Rhyming Slang

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 9, 202418:51pending

A Word in Your Ear: Advertising Language

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 2, 202420:54pending

A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words and Easter

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 26, 202421:02pending

A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 19, 202428:47pending

A Word in Your Ear: Sports Idioms

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 12, 202425:18pending

A Word in Your Ear: Syllables and Full Stops

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 6, 202422:31pending

A Word in Your Ear: Animal Words

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 28, 202427:51pending

A Word in Your Ear: Month Pronounciation

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 21, 202424:08pending

A Word in Your Ear: Love Language

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 14, 202427:03pending

A Word in Your Ear: Stress & Emphasis

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 7, 202427:02pending

A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciation & Enunciation

A Word in Your Ear

Jan 31, 202423:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: English spelling

A Word in Your Ear

Jan 24, 202422:43pending

A Word in Your Ear: Words of the Year

A Word in Your Ear

Jan 17, 202425:49pending

A Word in Your Ear: The World of Names

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 30, 202324:12pending

A Word in Your Ear: Advertising jingles

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 23, 202323:44pending

A Word in Your Ear: Insults

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 16, 202322:06pending

A Word in Your Ear: Capitals and Capitalisation

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 9, 202325:51pending

A Word in Your Ear: Punctuation

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 2, 202321:21pending

A Word in Your Ear: American influences

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 26, 202321:32pending

A Word in Your Ear: Stress words

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 19, 202321:35pending

A Word in Your Ear: Age

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 12, 202322:19pending

A Word in Your Ear: Phrasal verbs

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 5, 202325:41pending

A Word in Your Ear: Football words

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 28, 202319:19pending

A Word in Your Ear: Politeness

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 14, 202330:26pending

A Word in Your Ear: Gardening terminology

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 7, 202324:13pending

A Word in Your Ear: Signals and Signs

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 31, 202322:58pending

A Word in Your Ear: English's evolution

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 24, 202323:14pending

A Word in Your Ear: Sports nicknames

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 17, 202319:06pending

A Word in Your Ear: Dutch influences

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 27, 202322:56pending

A Word in Your Ear: Americanisms

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 20, 202323:10pending