{"id":717,"date":"2010-04-17T22:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2010-04-21T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:28:20","slug":"eyjafjallajoekull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/eyjafjallajoekull\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyjafjallajoekull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Volcano.jpeg\" alt=\"Volcano\" title=\"Volcano\" width=\"133\" height=\"97\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-718\" \/>The title of this post is not a bunch of random letters strung together. It is currently the source of many people\u2019s woes (or extra holiday days, depending on how you look at it). <\/p>\n<p>So it may be best to find out how to pronounce <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull\">Eyjafjallajoekull<\/a>, rather than just referring to it as \u201cthat volcano in Iceland\u201d (or, perhaps more accurately \u201cthat glacier with the volcano erupting underneath\u2026. in Iceland\u201d). You may also impress your friends with the knowledge. Here\u2019s the BBC\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/magazinemonitor\/2010\/04\/how_to_say_eyjafjallajoekull.shtml\">guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull (or Eyafallaj\u00f6kull) is pronounced AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl (-uh) , that is -ay as in day, -fy as in few, -oe as in French coeur, -uu as in boot, the -tl as in atlas. The (-uh) is &#8220;a&#8221; as in ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope, still can\u2019t say it. <\/p>\n<p>Also worth knowing: Eyjafjallajoekull is Icelandic for &#8220;Eyja-fjalla glacier&#8221; or &#8220;island-mountain glacier&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is not a bunch of random letters strung together. It is currently the source of many people\u2019s woes (or extra holiday days, depending on how you look at it). So it may be best to find out how to pronounce Eyjafjallajoekull, rather than just referring to it as \u201cthat volcano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[702,83,44],"tags":[704,703,83,705],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icelandic","category-pronunciation","category-words","tag-eyjafjallajoekull","tag-letters","tag-pronunciation","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}