A Word in Your Ear

Jeepers creepers, aren't echo phrases just the bees' knees? 

The Lord of Language, Professor Roly Sussex explains how they work. 

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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