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.
ABC
Show overview
A Word in Your Ear has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 267 episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 22 min and 27 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. Published by ABC.
From the publisher
Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.
Latest Episodes
View all 267 episodesA Word In Your Ear: Why The French Language Dominates Kitchens
A Word In Your Ear: What Does A Voice Coach Do?
A Word In Your Ear: How New Words Are Created
A Word In Your Ear: Email and Envelope Address Etiquette
A Word In Your Ear: Teaching Kids To Spell
A Word In Your Ear: The Language of the Sea
A Word In Your Ear: "Dishlickers" Joins the Oxford Dictionary!
A Word In Your Ear: The Language of Gardening
A Word In Your Ear: TV Catchphrases That Have Stuck
A Word In Your Ear: Soccer It To Me!
A Word In Your Ear: Creative Language
A Word In Your Ear: Do the Rules of School Still Apply
A Word in Your Ear: May Free For All
A Word In Your Ear: The Language of Booze
A Word In Your Ear: Clothes and Fashion
A Word In Your Ear: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Accents
A Word In Your Ear: LOL with Acronyms and Initialisations
A Word In Your Ear: Prison Slang
A Word In Your Ear: What Words Can You Do Without?
A Word in Your Ear: Christmas Language
Professor Roly Sussex explains the phrases of the festive season.