A Word in Your Ear

Episodes

• A Word In Your Ear: Rickroll and Neckbeard, The New Dictionary AdditionsNew words in our dictionaries a-plenty - let's find out how many you're familiar with and how many draw a blank.

  344|25M
• A Word In Your Ear: What Has Shaped Our Fashion Vocabulary?Historically, what are the main influences on English fashion vocabulary? And how does clothing linguistics differ abroad? Kelly Higgins-Devine reveals all with the Lord of Language Professor Roly Sussex, and Senior Lecturer in Fashion at QUT, Dr Tim Lindgren.

  343|30M
• A Word In Your Ear: Australians Love Language PlayAustralians love a good simile, but how did we invent them?

  342|23M
• A Word In Your Ear: Why The French Language Dominates KitchensWhy did French become the universal language of high gastronomy across international royal courts and professional kitchens?

  341|23M
• A Word In Your Ear: What Does A Voice Coach Do?AWIYE: The work of voice and dialect coaches

  340|29M
• A Word In Your Ear: How New Words Are CreatedNeologisms, and how they are formed.

  339|21M
• A Word In Your Ear: Email and Envelope Address EtiquetteThe art of addressing someone formally over email.

  338|24M
• A Word In Your Ear: Teaching Kids To SpellLanguage Professor Roly Sussex and Education Specialist Sue-Belinda Meehan discuss the language of how we teach primary school children, language.

  337|28M
• A Word In Your Ear: The Language of the SeaPipe the hands and stand by, because Admiral of the English Language, Professor Roly Sussex is making way through the language of the Royal Australian Navy and translating the salty expressions that have sailed from life at sea into everyday Australian English.

  336|23M
• A Word In Your Ear: "Dishlickers" Joins the Oxford Dictionary!Language Professor Roly Sussex discusses the seventeen Australian words the Oxford English Dictionary has added in 2026, including "yeah nah", "checkout chick" and "dishlickers".

  335|26M