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A Word in Your ear with Roy Sussex from 2020-11-26T13:30
Clothing words and changing fashions, Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the passing pageant of apparel.
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A Word in Your Ear from 2018-02-03T11:00
Roly Sussex is talking about words which appear to be vanishing from everyday use.
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A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex from 2018-01-27T09:30
Roly Sussex rejoins ABC Local Radio for 2018.
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The Professor Roly Sussex Debate from 2017-08-29T13:00
Roly Sussex has been with the ABC for two decades now, and to celebrate, a special debate was held in Roly’s honour.
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A Word In Your Ear with Professor Roly Sussex from 2017-05-18T14:00
Your favourite bugbear this afternoon - Americanisms. Language Professor Roly Sussex is having a "Word In Your Ear"
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A Word in Your Ear with Professor Roly Sussex: everyday Latin from 2017-04-27T13:00
The English language has adopted many Latin expressions and abbreviations. Professor Roly Sussex helps to sort your "ipso facto" from your "carpe diem".
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A Word in Your Ear with Professor Roly Sussex: Changing language across generations from 2017-04-20T14:00
We don't speak English the same way as they did in Shakespeare's day, so why would we expect to be communicating in the same way as we did in the 1950s or even the 70s?
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A Word in Your Ear with Professor Roly Sussex: The informality of Australian English from 2017-04-06T13:00
Today we look at the informality of English as used in Australia, and the ways in which it is less formal than in many other countries.
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A Word In Your Ear with Professor Roly Sussex: Military words and expressions from 2017-03-23T14:00
Military words and expressions turn up in everyday usage, but few people know where they really come from. Roly Sussex is joined here by military historian and journalist, Major Ross Eastgate to di...
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A Word in Your Ear: Words borrowed from the Dutch from 2017-03-16T15:00
We all know that English has borrowed from other languages like Latin, Greek, Italian and Spanish, but what about Dutch?
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A Word In Your Ear: The letter u from 2017-03-09T15:00
Is the letter u falling out of favour - or should that be favor?
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A Word In Your Ear: The language of politeness from 2017-03-02T15:00
Politeness is often only noticed when it's absent, for instance when people don't say thank you. What role does politeness play in our conversations?
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A Word In Your Ear: The language of gardening from 2017-02-23T15:00
How are plants are named, why is there a world-wide re-naming of plants happening and why do some plants have multiple names? All this and more with Professor Roly Sussex and Gardening Australia's ...
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A Word In Your Ear: Homophones from 2017-02-16T14:00
Professor Roly Sussex explains what homophones are, why there are so many in the English language and why they exist.
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