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10 Monate her •

Today I learned
10 Monate her •

TIL Antarctica has its own English accent, with over 200 words for different types of ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_English
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Heliograph 10 Monate her •

👀 😯 oh wow #antarctic #language

Screenshot Antarctic English - Wikipedia : en.m.wikipedia.org

*~ Vocabulary ’

Antarctic English features various words that are not used in other varieties of English. Differences in

vocabulary include:

British English // Antarctic English

Sleeping chamber // Donga

Antarctica // The Ice

Homebrew beer // Homer

Insomnia // Big Eye

Antarctic English also has over 200 words for different types of ice. Words include tabulars (large flat-topped southern icebergs that break off from the Antarctic ice sheet and are usually over ten miles long), and growlers (underwater decaying icebergs roughly the size of a house).l?! In addition, the tourism industry has terms for different types of tourist encounters, such as Kodak poisoning (what happens when many tourists take photographs of the same site) and Dead-Penguin Tours (a type of tour in the late summer after penguins have abandoned weak chicks to die, leaving their bodies in popular tourist destinations, which causes grief in tourists.

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