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Originally Posted by Dysole
Arctic is "there are bears here" and Antarctic is "there are not bears here". Etymology is fun.
~Dysole, who nearly typed entomology which is also fun (at least she thinks so) but completely irrelevant to this discussion
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My personal mnemonic device for distinguishing between the two has always been to think of the latter as ANT-omology.
~Sherman, who thinks maybe he should've posted this in Sujoah's thread instead