Of all the people on MB, I think I stand a fair chance at pronouncing Eyjafjallajoekull right .. It seems to be made up of words we have in norwegian language. "Fjell" here means mountain and "joekull" must be "jøkul" which means a stretch of glacier like the part of a glacier coming down a mountainside. Iceland was inhabited by norwegian ancestors back in the days so the languages are quite similar. They're much better at preserving the old stuff than we are.
I'm supposed to travel back up to the arctic sometime in summer .. Hope I don't get stranded up there because the darned volcano starts burping again.
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