Ar(c)ticulation

[undyingking]

Yow! I just came about an inch away from a deeply unpleasant experience, namely: walking my face right into a spider's web full of struggling winged ants.

To take me away from the thought of that, how do you pronounce the name of the area around the North Pole, and (perhaps as importantly) how do you think it should correctly be pronounced?

[Poll #1228169]

This was prompted by this interesting article in languagelog , but please fill out the poll before reading it...

Comments

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Arctic is correnct, but I was trying to work out whether I say arktik or artik, since both seem 'normal'. Then I realised I definitely say ant-arktic, so that swung it for the pole (hah, hah, poll, pole, see what I did there?).

February is Feb_rurree.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I might occasionally say ant-artik, but never artik.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Well. Er. There you go then.