A Word in Your Ear
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A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Collocations are essential to speaking and understanding English, but are there rules when it comes to using them? Professor Roly Sussex is on the case.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex on the worst buzzwords and jargon of the year so far.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the power of slogans and how effective they can be in creating a more lasting message or memory.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Politeness through avoidance means using conditional questions to stay away from language that may be thought confrontational or challenging. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Politeness is associated with empathy: being polite it is an attempt to help the other person be comfortable and avoid confronting behaviour. The ever respectful Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Is the Aussie accent unique or does it share certain characteristics with our Kiwi cousins? Professor Roly Sussex is talking ocker!
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Schadenfreude, flak, pretzel, and so much more. Professor Roly Sussex on words we have borrowed from the German language.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Salutations and valedictions: Professor Roly Sussex on the rules for a proper greeting
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Using Italian in everyday English means there's something specific we admire about it
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex on a new word that's entered the Australian vernacular: quozza from quarantine
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Self as a reference by a subject to the same subject. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Nouns have always been verbified, but is it right or wrong and should we or should we not? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Nicknames are a wonderful part of language play and are very well developed in Australia. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Everyone has a headful of English; not everyone can explain how it all works
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the role of accents in the differences and development of the English language.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Why and which Americanisms have crept into every day use in Australian English?
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
When it comes to pronunciation, what is standard, who decides, and how much variation is acceptable? Allow Professor Roly Sussex to explain.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Vow and Declare - A Melbourne Cup winner and the subject matter with Roly Sussex this week as we talk doublets
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Can language exist without culture? No jokes about it - Professor Roly Sussex talks ‘Globish'
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Giddy Up! Professor Roly Sussex isn't horsing around in another escapade of equine expressions
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Is it blowing a gale? Or raining cats and dogs? It's quite the heated subject - we're talking weather with Professor Roly Sussex
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
As we move from football to the racing season, Professor Roly Sussex is going hell for leather with equine expressions.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is joined by a special guest, Professor Tor Hundloe, to talk about the language of economics.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is trawling for examples of where one word has lots of different meanings.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about why jargon's necessary and appropriate in its in-house context, but why it can be vile elsewhere.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about words which should be struck from the English language.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Where should we put the stress on words with more than one syllable? Professor Roly Sussex settles a few arguments.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about why some places are spelt and pronounced differently in different langauges.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex has been in the Czech Republic and is chatting about English words of Slavic origin.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Why is Latin perfect for romantic scholars? Allow Professor Roly Sussex to explain.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Sushi, wasabi, and tofu. Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the Japanese words we use in everyday English.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Going forward, Professor Roly Sussex hopes you'll take some learnings from his chat about business jargon.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Using titles is one way of emphasising courtesy but, argues Professor Roly Sussex, it is declining fast in contemporary Australia.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Tackling the age-old debate about how to pronounce maroon.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Who owns the word 'football' and why? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Politicians have been egged during the election campaign. With an egg. Clearly, argues Professor Roly Sussex, this is an ill-eggal act.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
A lot of people don't agree with the use of the word 'get' but, as Professor Roly Sussex argues, 'get' is the third most common verb in English, and there are hundreds of uses and combinations.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is talking about nouns, verbs and adjectives as well as political expressions and taking calls from listeners.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
A hedge is a word when you hedge on committing: a 'possibly' dangerous purchase. A booster is a word which intensifies something: a 'really' dangerous purchase. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Ballot, poll, vote, candidate, constituent and constituency: Professor Roly Sussex is getting to grips with the upcoming election.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
North American spellings, words and pronunciations are increasingly used in Australia. Professor Roly Sussex explains why.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
In the early days of the ABC, people listened to the BBC and what was called Received Pronunciation; anything less was regarded as debased or undesirable. But, says Professor Roly Sussex, nowadays the norms of Australian English are multiple and often variable.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting with listeners about common mispronunciations and grammatical errors.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the way certain words are pronounced in Australian English.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
A stitch in time saves nine is all Greek to me. Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about popular sayings, similes, proverbs and euphemisms.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
What's the most polite way to greet a group of people? Professor Roly Sussex has a definite opinion on this one!
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Is first responder an Americanism or is it coming from the services themselves? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
The Word Of The Year is proposed by various dictionaries and institutions in different countries. Professor Roly Sussex explains.