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Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield, explaining the weird and wonderful aspects of English and many other languages.

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Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield, explaining the weird and wonderful aspects of English and many other languages.

    A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words and Easter

    A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words and Easter

    The Easter Bunny? It's raining cats and dogs? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather phrases and the origins of Easter.

    • 21分
    A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'

    A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'

    Hang in there. Get over it. Put up with it. How did these peculiar and 'improper' phrases come to pervade the English language?

    • 28分
    A Word in Your Ear: Sports Idioms

    A Word in Your Ear: Sports Idioms

    Football or soccer? From kicking goals to putting the ball in their court, Roly Sussex discusses his favourite sports idioms.

    • 25分
    A Word in Your Ear: Syllables and Full Stops

    A Word in Your Ear: Syllables and Full Stops

    White house? Mardi Gras? Roly Sussex discusses the muddling of syllables, and the changing face of the full stop.

    • 22分
    A Word in Your Ear: Animal Words

    A Word in Your Ear: Animal Words

    Catfishing? Dogfishing? And what about breadcrumbing? Roly unveils the surprising origins of animal-based words, and the unexpected impact those words have had on the language of dating.

    • 27分
    A Word in Your Ear: Month Pronounciation

    A Word in Your Ear: Month Pronounciation

    Feb-RAR-y? Feb-RY? Feb-YOR-ary? How do you say February?

    • 24分

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