ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
25 minutes
English
Australia
575 episodes
since Feb. 16, 2017
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~53.79% of listeners are from Australia.
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AU
53.79%
🇳🇿
NZ
32.85%
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FI
7.80%
🇨🇦
CA
2.05%
🇬🇧
GB
1.23%
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US
0.82%
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OM
0.82%
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DE
0.20%
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IN
0.20%
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IQ
0.20%
Others
0.04%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Jeepers creepers, aren't echo phrases just the bees' knees?
The Lord of Language, Professor Roly Sussex explains how they work.
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Did you get a strong foundation in "morphology" when you were at school? Has that helped you understand other words in your adult years?
There is debate over whether we need phonetic spelling, but that could be a catastrophe. Professor Roly Sussex explains why.
The games we play with language - and we do love language games - and not just the scrabble, wordle, crossword kind.
The Lord of Language, Professor Roly Sussex, and 612 presenter Sally Rope, rabbit and pork about this colourful play of language.
New words in our dictionaries a-plenty - let's find out how many you're familiar with and how many draw a blank.
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.
Australians love a good simile, but how did we invent them?
Why did French become the universal language of high gastronomy across international royal courts and professional kitchens?
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