
A Word in Your Ear: Christmas Language
2025-12-08 | 25 min.
Professor Roly Sussex explains the phrases of the festive season.

A Word in Your Ear: Politeness
2025-12-01 | 24 min.
What does it mean to be polite, and has that changed in recent years?

A Word in Your Ear: Pronunciations
2025-11-17 | 19 min.
Professor Roly Sussex clarifies some common pronunciation problems and why different places have differing ways of saying the same thing.

A Word in Your Ear: Neologisms
2025-11-10 | 28 min.
Everyone loves a fresh turn of phrase, a new saying or an untested expression. These newly coined phrases are called neologisms.

A Word in Your Ear: Broken Rules
2025-10-27 | 25 min.
It might shock you, but Professor Roly Sussex says some language rules are made to be broken.



A Word in Your Ear