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Learn how to pronounce antarctic correctly by understanding the syllables and which one to stress.
The word antarctic is made up of 3 syllables.
The 2nd syllable has the stress so the word is pronounced: ant-ARK-tik
Note the word is pronounced ant-ARK-tik NOT ant-AR-tik
In the example we see penguins in the Antarctic
The sentence reads: Here we see Chinstrap Penguins weathering an Antarctic storm!
Examples of antarctic from news items:
Last year, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s deepest land canyon thousands of feet below an Antarctic glacier.
Source: Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/science/fragment-of-lost-continent-discovered-in-canada
Tourism in the Antarctic began with a trickle in the 1950s, but the industry remained exclusive and expensive.
Source: The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/travel/antarctica-tourism-environment-safety.html
Climate change is causing the Arctic and the Antarctic to warm faster than other parts of the planet.
Source: The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/un-antarctic-high-temp-records-will-take-months-to-verify/
“The Antarctic peninsula … is among the fastest warming regions of the planet. We hear a lot about the Arctic, but this particular part of the Antarctic peninsula is warming very quickly.”
Source: Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-wmo-antarctica-idUSKBN20120N
It’s an alarming possibility; Pine Island Glacier already accounts for more than a quarter of Antarctica’s contributions to sea-level rise over the last few decades.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2021/06/14/stories/1063734855
Shirase explains that she’s going to use the money to join an expedition to Antarctica, where her mother disappeared three years ago while leading the previous expedition.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17468604/best-anime-of-2018-netflix-crunchyroll-amazon
More muddled data about life on Mars arrived in 1996, when scientists discovered what could have been microbial microfossils inside a Martian meteorite found in Antarctica.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-is-complicated-literally-astrobiologists-say/
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