Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander

[Tom Zurinskas]

This one I hear as ~Aeyaaflletyieyook
Accent on the 3rd rather than 2nd syllable.  Didn't hear the slosh for k.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling



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> #$%@#$!! Primitive e-mail systems.
> The easiest thing is to go to the Wikipedia entry, since any browser worth its salt will render Unicode characters correctly.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull
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> I actually turned html off on my fancy web-based Zimbra e-mail system, and sent everything in plain text, and it was rendered correctly in Courier font. But some folks are stuck with e-mail clients that do things like =CB and =88 instead of left square bracket, primary stress etc.
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>> From: "Joel S. Berson"
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>> At 4/22/2010 03:26 PM, Geoffrey Nathan wrote:

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>> cite=3D"">Content-Transfer-Encoding:
>> 8bit


>> For those whose e-mail clients can support IPA, it's transcribed this
>> way:


>> [=CB=88ei=CB=90jafjatlaj=9C=CB=90k=CA=8Ftl=CC=A5]

>> How would you do it for those whose e-mail clients do not?


>> Joel


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