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The English language is famous for having rules that don't make sense, and the rules of spelling and pronunciation are a big reason. Some letters are pronounced, some aren't, and there's no real system for figuring out when to pronounce and when not to. In fact, more than half of the letters in our alphabet ( B, D, E, G, H, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, W, X, and Z) are silent in some words. And that's a conservative estimate. Silent letters confuse English language learners of all ages, and native speakers can't even explain why they're there. It's time that we get to the bottom of this spelling and pronunciation mystery. The English language has been written down for more than a thousand years, which means it's had plenty of time to borrow and twist around words from other languages. For example, consider Greek words like "psychology" and Japanese words like "tsunami." Because English doesn't have the Greek letter ψ (psi) or the J...
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Glaciers| Okjokull glacier| Curio Facts

 

Okjokull glacier

OK is the shield volcano in Iceland situated in the west of the ice land. The volcano was once topped by the glacier name OKjokull but now disappeared completely from its place.


Glaciers| Okjokull glacier| Curio Facts

Climate change is the biggest problem the planet earth is facing recently and the cause is we humans. Burning of fossil fuels, smoke releases more gasses in the atmosphere which traps the sunlight in the atmosphere and results the rise in temperature of the earth. This rise of the temperature is causing the melting of the giant glaciers including Antarctica (a whole continent).

The okjokull glacier of the Iceland is one of the victims of the climate change. In 1890 the area of the volcano OK which was covered by the ice was 16 square km but in 2012 it remained only 0.7 square km. According to a 2017 report from the University of Iceland the island loses about 11 billion tones of ice per year.

100 officials of Iceland held funeral for the lost glacier recently on august 2019 showing their wariness that how badly the climate change can affect their country.

The ceremony included the unveiling of a plaque honoring the melted glacier, which is now called just “Ok,” minus the Icelandic word for glacier, according to the Associated Press.

The funeral was a long time coming: Icelandic geologist Oddur Sigurðsson predicted the glacier extinction about a decade ago.

Organizers described the plaque as “a letter to the future” that warns all glaciers could follow Okjokull to extinction within the next 200 years, according to Sky News.

The words on the plaque read, “This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”

The plaque also includes the amount of carbon dioxide measured in the atmosphere last May, a record-breaking 415 ppm CO2.

The two NASA photos attached are of the OKjokull glacier in different times, one taken in 1986 (left) and the other in August of this year (right), show how the glacier has become a mere ghost of its former self


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