
“It’s not really that hard; it just rolls of the tongue,” I was told. “Eyjafjallajökull.” … Uh, what tongue are we talking about here?!? Because it surely isn’t mine. A word with THAT many consonants cannot possibly just “roll off” a person’s tongue. Can it? Well, in Iceland, apparently it can. Here, syllables squish and meld together in odd ways. Nothing is pronounced like you think it should be. There aren’t enough vowels. Oh, and did I mention the weird letters like ”Þ” and “ð”? I’ve …Read more…























