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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent - BBC Future

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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent 23 February 2024 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Richard Gray Marlon Clark Antarctica is a bleak, remote and dark place during the winter, but a handful of people each year brave the conditions to live almost totally cut off from the rest of the world. The experience can change how they speak. It was a suitably icy farewell salute: a handful of snowballs arcing through the sky towards RSS Ernest Shackleton as the ship slipped away from the wharf. The vessel was setting out across the stormy Southern Ocean

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