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1 A Word in Your Ear: New Year & Christmas Alliteration 18:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWith US elections on the horizon, Roly Sussex investigates the language of democracy.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMarmee? Gram? Gramps? Papa? This week, Roly Sussex discusses the words we use for our older relatives.
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1 A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciation & Enunciation 23:34
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKilometre or KILO-metre? Addicting or addictive? And should you drop the 't' in comfortable?
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1 A Word in Your Ear: Capitals and Capitalisation 25:51
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHow did we decide what should be capitalised, and what should be lowercase? And why do we capitalise 'I' but not 'me'?
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The ABC's Lord of Language, the Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex, discusses American influences on the English language.
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The word 'old' has come to have some rather peculiar connotations.
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The ABC's Lord of Language, the Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex, discusses the evolution of the English language.
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The ABC's Lord of Language, the Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex, discusses Americanisms.
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The ABC's Lord of Language, the Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex, discusses echo phrases.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe ABC's Lord of Language, the Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex, discusses spelling and pronunciation.
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Depending on whether you're speaking the King's English, the POTUS English, or good old 'Strayan English, the one language can sound entirely different.
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Fresh off the back of his European tour, Professor Roly Sussex is finally back in Queensland to share a word in your ear.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedProfessor Roly Sussex is away on a European tour, but he hasn't stopped sharing his linguistic lessons.
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Professor Roly Sussex is away on a European tour, but he hasn't stopped sharing his linguistic learnings. Roly joins Kat Feeney all the way from Estonia in northern Europe.
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In school, you were probably taught they were the 'doing words'. But are English verbs a bit more complicated than that? Professor Roly Sussex investigates verbs and how they've evolved over time.
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Are you an 'er', an 'ese', an 'an', an 'ee', an 'ian' or an 'ish'?There are so many different suffixes to describe the place you come from.Professor Roly Sussex breaks down the complexities of demonyms.
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Dutch courage, a Dutch auction, and a Dutch oven are expressions that, like ABC Radio's Mike van Acker, have their origins in the Netherlands, but how many words that we use in everyday language come from Dutch? Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about loanwords.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThey form the basis of every word we read and every sentence we speak, but where do letters come from? That's just one of the questions for Professor Roly Sussex from students at Ferny Grove State School.
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Do women interrupt less and generally use more polite language than blokes? Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the linguistic war of the sexes.
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State of Origin on Sunday so who will you barrack for? In Britain, barracking is about shouting loudly to interrupt someone so why does barracking mean something different in Australia?
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A bellweather seat, a dark horse, swing states, and dog whistling: common enough expressions in election time, but what are their origins? Professor Roly Sussex is talking politics.
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1 A Word in Your Ear: Teenagers ask their questions 23:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWhy do so many languages have a gender for the words but, in the main, English doesn't? Professor Roly Sussex is on hand with an answer.
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Sometimes the same word can be pronounced in different ways so does it all depend where the speaker's from? Professor Roly Sussex has an answer to the controversy - but how does he pronounce controversy?
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New words in the English language pop all the time. Words like meme and paywall are connected with the digital age in which we now live. But how do new words become formally accepted for use though?
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If it's mouse and mice, why isn't it house and hice? And what about tooth and teeth or foot and feet? Who makes the rules and why aren't they consistent? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedInk wells and blotting paper, milk monitors and chalk: the classrooms have reopened this week, but the language of school has changed and many words that were almost synonymous with the classroom have disappeared from everyday use.
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Credenza, console, cabinet and cupboards: do we really keep cups in our cupboards? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIf you can't say what you mean then how can you mean what you say?
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What's the G doing in benign or consign or even gnome? Allow Professor Sussex to explain.
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The sense of smell as in a dog with a keen nose or a special kind of smell as in a wine with a good nose. In this case, 'nose' is a polysemy. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
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One tooth, two teeth. One goose, two geese. One foot, two feet ... so one mouse, two meese? And why don't we have two foots or two tooths? Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the problem with plurals.
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How long is a chaise longue and would you really strip and polish a duchess? Professor Roly Sussex is talking about furniture.
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Politicians and the health experts talk about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, but what's the difference between efficacy and efficiency or effectiveness?
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Tennis has a distinctly French origin and this is reflected in the language of the sport itself. Professor Roly Sussex explains.
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1 A Word in Your Ear: To 'have' and to 'hold' 35:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedProfessor Roly Sussex says 'have' is one of the most important verbs in the English language, but how difficult is it using 'have' in the present perfect tense for someone learning English or speaking English as a second language?
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"Let's eat, kids" is so much more palatable than "let's eat kids", but grammatical and syntax errors are easy to make. Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about some of the common mistakes we make in the English language.
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Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas? Why and how do we greet people on festive occasions? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
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Should English be written as it sounds and sound as it's written? Professor Roly Sussex joins the debate.
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Clothing words and changing fashions, Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about the passing pageant of apparel.
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Many surnames are patronymics, but there are a few matrilineal societies and the origins of the surname may differ in non-English speaking societies. Professor Roly Sussex is chatting to listeners about the origins and meanings of surnames all over the world.
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What language do we use or hear which doesn't mean very much but has an important social function? Professor Roly Sussex is talking about phatic communion.
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Prepare for a tongue-lashing from the ABC's word wizard because Professor Roly Sussex is giving the thumbs up to metaphors from body parts.
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K-Pop and the Squid Game are just two examples of the popularity of Korean culture, and the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has just added more than 20 words of Korean origin.
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Actress, manageress, waitress: are those descriptions somewhat antiquated these days or are gendered nouns important so we know who's being talked about? Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about gendered language.
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What are the rules when it comes to asking questions in English? Allow Professor Roly Sussex to offer a few answers.
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New words are being invented every day, many from social media, but which ones are entering into mainstream dictionaries?
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Allegro and mezzaforte, presto and fortissimo. Why is the Italian language so predominant when it comes to musical terms and expressions?
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1 A Word in Your Ear: talking 'a' as a prefix 28:42
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedApolitical and atheist but unlawful and disbelief so why can't we say 'alawful' or 'abelief'?
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Why would a glass be called a schooner? Professor Roly Sussex is talking about the origins of words we use to describe beer glasses.
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Play with a straight bat if you don't want to be caught off-side because Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about sporting metaphors.
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When was the last time you heard someone say ‘cobber’ or ‘ fair dinkum’? Has Aussie slang carked it? Professor Roly Sussex, a man who's never been a few stubbies short of a six-pack, has been doing the hard yakka researching the past, present and future of our everyday lingo.
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With much of south east Queensland in lockdown, many parents are assuming the role of teacher. Professor Roly Sussex is helping out his younger listeners with their school-related questions.
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Which words are most frequently mispronounced and why are those words so difficult in the first place? Professor Roly Sussex says simplifications like vulnerable have a good phonetic explanation, but that's not always the case.
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According to the official Wimbledon website, Queensland's Ash Barty won the ladies singles final and Novak Djokovic won the gentlemen's final, so why not women and men's? Allow Professor Roly Sussex to explain.
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How do we know where to put the word stress in English and are there any rules about which words have a stress in specific parts?
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