HeyJaredA Word in Your Ear
Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.
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A Word In Your Ear: What Has Shaped Our Fashion Vocabulary? (opens the original)
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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.
A Word In Your Ear: Australians Love Language Play (opens the original)
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Australians love a good simile, but how did we invent them?
A Word In Your Ear: Why The French Language Dominates Kitchens (opens the original)
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Why did French become the universal language of high gastronomy across international royal courts and professional kitchens?
A Word In Your Ear: What Does A Voice Coach Do? (opens the original)
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AWIYE: The work of voice and dialect coaches
A Word In Your Ear: How New Words Are Created (opens the original)
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Neologisms, and how they are formed.
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