What is a word in your ear?
A Word in Your Ear on Apple Podcasts Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield, explaining the weird and wonderful aspects of English and many other languages. Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield, explaining the weird and wonderful aspects of English and many other languages.
What happened to word in Your Ear Magazine?
When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material.
What is the heaviest book on “word in your ear”?
His book “ Evenings With Led Zeppelin ” has the distinction of being literally the heaviest book ever to feature on “Word In Your Ear”. Dave came in to the Islington to talk about what got him excited in 1971 and, as you’ll hear, still excites him today.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Credenza, console, cabinet and cupboards: do we really keep cups in our cupboards? Professor Roly Sussex explains.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about why certain words or expressions disappear or are removed from the English language.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
Australian English seems to be adopting more and more expressions from the US, but how many Aussie words and expressions do you think the North Americans are borrowing from us?
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
What's the origin of our Christmas expressions and how is the festive season talked about in languages other than English?
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
From which other language did most English words originate? That's just one of the questions from students at Junction Park State School and Professor Roly Sussex is doing his very best to answer.
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' is an English-language pangram: it's a sentence which contains all of the letters of the English alphabet. But is that the only pangram? Professor Roly Sussex is on a mission to ...
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
How big is your vocabulary? Former British prime minister and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Winston Churchill is supposed to have had a 60.000 word vocabulary. It's a question about vocabulary that's on the mind of Wesley, a Year 6 ...
