Eyjafjallajökull - Thats Easy For You To Say !



Eyja   fjalla   jökull


It's not LL as in miller.


It's TL as in antler.


Stress is on syllables shown in bold.

"Eyja" - island - ayuh as in sayer

"fjalla" - mountain - fyatle with fy as in few, at, le as in rattler without the 'r' sound.

"jökull"  - yokooteel with yo as in yacht, oo as in book, faint or missing final L.

island mountain glacier

It could hardly be simpler.  :-)

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/pronounce-eyjafjallajokull-10392613

The airlines may be losing money over this volcano, but the media is having a ball.

Which proves the truth1 of an old saying handed down from the Vikings to the people of Yorkshire:

"Where there's møkk, there's brass."


1 - see link below for the real origin of the phrase:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/408900.html