ABC Brisbane - A word in your ear

This week: take a trip down "Language Lane" with a few more of those annoying Americanisms that have made their way into our daily speech and a look back at the WooFTies - Roly's wonderful "Word For Today" series.

Today with Roly, pairs of words that cause confusion, for instance: affect, effect - lay, lie - among, between - infer, imply.

How many of us are guilty of the bad use of English language? See if you've used one or more of these phrases or expressions recently.

This week: polysemy, from Greek many + sign. When a word develops new related meanings.

With Roly today, homo-terms - homograph, written the same, pronounced differently, and homophone, written differently, pronounced the same.