ABC Brisbane - A word in your ear

Professor Roly Sussex is trawling for examples of where one word has lots of different meanings.

Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about why jargon's necessary and appropriate in its in-house context, but why it can be vile elsewhere.

Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about words which should be struck from the English language.

Where should we put the stress on words with more than one syllable? Professor Roly Sussex settles a few arguments.

Professor Roly Sussex is chatting about why some places are spelt and pronounced differently in different langauges.