Heard on NOVA:

[Jocelyn Limpert]

I totally agree with you and learned the same pronunciation as you,
pronouncing the initial "c" and not dropping it. These days I am forever
hearing TV newspeople and others dropping the initial "c" sound in both
Arctic and Antarctic. It bothers me, as to my ear it sounds "wrong"!

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "It's thirty degrees, it's snowing, and we're in the Arctic [ar.tIk]."
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> The pronunciation that I was specifically taught to use ca. 1945 - as
> opposed to the "spelling-pronunciation," [arktIk] - still lives.
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