Roland (Roly) Denis Sussex OAM is

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of Applied Language Studies at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies of the

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, Brisbane, Australia. Sussex hosts a

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program on

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and

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on ABC radio in

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and the

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and writes a weekly column, "Wordlimit", for the newspaper ''

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''. Sussex is a specialist in comparative linguistics, particularly of the

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, and takes an interest in the

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within this group. He is also keenly interested in the changes experienced by different languages, such as the influence of

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on Australian English. He holds a PhD from the

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in Russian Language and Comparative Linguistics."Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex"
University of Queensland He is an honorary life member of the ''

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'' and patron of the Institute of Professional Editors."Roland Sussex"
National Conference on Incontinence

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