I was planning on avoiding the Icelandic volcano story, since it’s a week old (and most of it happened while I was in NYC). But this video of newscasters trying to pronounce Eyjafjallajökul is awesomely funny. Most seem to have inserted at least one extra syllable.
But I give them props for trying (most seemed to be British–I think the Americans just defaulted to ‘Icelandic volcano’). This also sounds like a language that might actually be harder to learn to pronounce than Dutch.
One last comment on the flight delays now taking place across a lot of northern Europe: Whoever came up with #ashtag (a play on the concept of the Twitter #hashtag) is a genius.
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