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You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it?

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

In March of 2018, an international team of 26 researchers and support staff were deposited at a research station in Antarctica,

and they were left to conduct six months of scientific studies there.

They were totally isolated. They were at the bottom of the world in the dead of winter.

There were a few Germans, some Scots, a speaker of Welsh, and a couple of Americans and somebody from Iceland. So the language

they all shared was English and during their stay they took part in a study by

phonetics researchers in Germany and every few weeks they would go off by themselves and record themselves saying the same 29 words

and a funny thing happened because at the end of those six months,

their accents had changed ever so slightly. Now, not so that you could hear it,

but the researchers back in Germany could see those changes by analyzing the acoustic waves on computers.

It's a fascinating study and we'll link to it online.

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