A Word in Your Ear

• A Word in Your Ear: Words of the Kitchen

  Have you ever thought about why we call the objects in our kitchen whatever we call them?

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• A Word in Your Ear: Female Phrasing

  Professor Roly Sussex unpacks the different ways women communicate, and how these contrasts emerged.

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• A Word in Your Ear: Analysing the Alphabet

  Professor Roly Sussex discusses the origins and uses of our 26 letters, and explains why we don't use a phonetic alphabet. 

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• A Word in Your Ear: Languages of Papua New Guinea

  Professor Roly Sussex is joined by ABC Radio Australia presenter Michael Chow, who speaks two and a half Papua New Guinean languages.

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• A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Advertising

  Professor Roly Sussex unpacks the language of some of the most successful adverts and why they have stood the test of time. 

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