Arctic elegy: a lament for the disappearing ice
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The Inuit’s multiple words for snow is one of many polar myths, but Inuktitut has a fund of expressions for different kinds of sea ice. If, while out paddling your kayak, you heard a cry of ‘Sugainnuq!’, you would look up in alarm and see ‘a huge moving mass of ice that threatens the integrity of the lead edge’, says telegraph.co. more »