What's the origin of our Christmas expressions and how is the festive season talked about in languages other than English?
12/16/2021
21:38
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
From which other language did most English words originate? That's just one of the questions from students at Junction Park State School and Professor Roly Sussex is doing his very best to answer.
12/9/2021
19:01
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' is an English-language pangram: it's a sentence which contains all of the letters of the English alphabet. But is that the only pangram? Professor Roly Sussex is on a mission to find out.
12/2/2021
33:48
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
If you can't say what you mean then how can you mean what you say?
11/25/2021
34:33
A Word in Your Ear with Roly Sussex
How big is your vocabulary? Former British prime minister and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Winston Churchill is supposed to have had a 60.000 word vocabulary. It's a question about vocabulary that's on the mind of Wesley, a Year 6 student at Durack State School and Professor Roly Sussex is only too happy to help out.
