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    Antarctica

    from The Oxford Guide to World English


    Tom McArthur
    Oxford University Press, 2002

    A range of Western European languages has been in use in and near Antarctica for much
    of the last hundred years, including English, French, German, the Scandinavian
    languages, and Spanish (from nearby Argentina and Chile), and English has served as the
    lingua franca among the many nations with a stake in the region. The kind of English
    used in Antarctica can nowadays beFhound in any heterogeneous international setting
    (for example, at United Nations gatherings, scientific conferences, and meetings of aid
    organizations worldwide), but in the Antarctic such English includes a great deal of
    technical usage focused on geology, meteorology, ecology, survival skills, and related
    fields. [p. 405]

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