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To: VU4G10
The July 9 event seems to mark the beginning of a new period of unrest for Katla, the fourth we know in the last half century

At least we can spell it!

2 posted on 12/02/2011 7:02:59 AM PST by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
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To: frithguild

And, unlike Grímsvötn last year, which most people thought they could pronounce when they were actually butchering it (it’s really more like “KREEMS-viht”), Katla is pronounced roughly the way it’s spelled (”a” as in “father”, and all consonants as expected)

If you know some Icelandic, words like Eyjafjallajökull aren’t that tricky (at least there are no trilled “r”s in there), but I can see how to someone who doesn’t know the language that could be challenging — number one, your eyes don’t see that it’s a compound word and thus where to break it up (Eyja-Fjalla-Jökull: Island-Mountain-Glacier (three common words)).


5 posted on 12/02/2011 7:55:21 AM PST by OldGuard1
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