Madam, – Following Cian Gallagher’s plea (May 24th) to use the name of “that volcano”, let’s try to make it easy for the media to pronounce its seemingly fearsome-looking name.
First, break down Eyjafjallajökull into its components: Eyja, pronounced Eye-ah means Island. Fjalla, pronounced fyalla is mountain. Jökull, yercool, is glacier. The whole name simply means island-mountain-glacier: Eye-ah-fyalla-yercool. – Yours, etc,