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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: Christmas Language

A Word in Your Ear

Dec 8, 202525:52pending

A Word in Your Ear: Politeness

A Word in Your Ear

Dec 1, 202524:52pending

A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciations

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 17, 202519:15pending

A Word in Your Ear: Neologisms

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 10, 202528:14pending

A Word in Your Ear: Broken Rules

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 27, 202525:23pending

A Word in Your Ear: CB Radio Slang

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 20, 202526:05pending

A Word in Your Ear: French Influences

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 13, 202523:03pending

A Word in Your Ear: Words of the Kitchen

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 6, 202523:16pending

A Word in Your Ear: Female Phrasing

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 29, 202522:49pending

A Word in Your Ear: Analysing the Alphabet

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 22, 202527:37pending

A Word in Your Ear: Languages of Papua New Guinea

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 15, 202531:16pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Advertising

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 8, 202520:01pending

A Word in Your Ear: Hedging

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 1, 202521:52pending

A Word in Your Ear: Insults of Yesteryear

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 25, 202526:28pending

A Word in Your Ear: Food Phrases

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 18, 202523:00pending

A Word in Your Ear: Diminutives and Nicknames

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 11, 202523:42pending

A Word in Your Ear: Slang

A Word in Your Ear

Aug 4, 202527:20pending

A Word in Your Ear: Open Slather

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 28, 202526:59pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Computers

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 21, 202523:38pending

A Word in Your Ear: Successful Languages

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 14, 202521:00pending

A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciation Problems

A Word in Your Ear

Jul 7, 202522:39pending

A Word in Your Ear: Aussie Phrases

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 30, 202521:44pending

A Word In Your Ear: Contronyms

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 16, 202531:56pending

A Word in Your Ear: Free For All

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 9, 202521:50pending

A Word in Your Ear: Footy Names

A Word in Your Ear

Jun 2, 202522:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: Alphabet

A Word in Your Ear

May 26, 202524:23pending

A Word in Your Ear: Puns

A Word in Your Ear

May 19, 202521:15pending

A Word in Your Ear: Money

A Word in Your Ear

May 12, 202527:55pending

A Word in Your Ear: Small Talk

A Word in Your Ear

May 5, 202521:26pending

A Word in Your Ear: Papal Phrases

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 28, 202521:14pending

A Word in Your Ear: Phrasal Verbs

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 14, 202519:00pending

A Word in Your Ear: Hip-hip-hooray

A Word in Your Ear

Apr 7, 202522:06pending

A Word in Your Ear: English Dialects

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 31, 202523:08pending

A Word in Your Ear: Footy Talk

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 24, 202524:10pending

A Word in Your Ear: St Patrick's Day

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 17, 202527:34pending

A Word in Your Ear: Wild Weather Words

A Word in Your Ear

Mar 3, 202518:23pending

A Word in Your Ear: Americanisms Part 2

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 24, 202522:12pending

A Word in Your Ear: Hello and Goodbye

A Word in Your Ear

Feb 17, 202522:01pending

A Word in Your Ear: Articulation & Speech Patterns

A Word in Your Ear

Jan 20, 202522:50pending

A Word in Your Ear: New Year & Christmas Alliteration

A Word in Your Ear

Jan 1, 202518:27pending

A Word in Your Ear: Giving & Philanthropy

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 20, 202421:44pending

A Word in Your Ear: Acronyms & Initialisms

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 13, 202422:09pending

A Word in Your Ear: Americanisms

A Word in Your Ear

Nov 6, 202423:36pending

A Word in Your Ear: Spooky Words

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 30, 202425:53pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Democracy

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 23, 202423:25pending

A Word in Your Ear: Italian Cuisine

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 16, 202425:11pending

A Word in Your Ear: Echo Phrases

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 9, 202422:30pending

A Word in Your Ear: Onomatopoeia

A Word in Your Ear

Oct 2, 202425:42pending

A Word in Your Ear: The Language of AFL

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 25, 202422:35pending

A Word in Your Ear: Mispronunciation & Mondegreens

A Word in Your Ear

Sep 18, 202416:45pending