Prescript: For once i dashed off a blogpost in time, as it was happening and as luck would have it, it was a false alarm.. dang it.. i mean.. thank god for that. this is the newsflash i just read… what nonsense indeed.But i have already said what i had to say. SO this underneath is what i said, and now i have added the clarification. Sheesh.
So i tried not to say anything, but then the news, and facebook updates AND twitter updates won’t let me. SO i have to say what i have to say. I was having a conversation with my favourite cousin last night and among this that and the other, she asked me, “Oye yaar, how do you pronounce that volcano’s name?” And i had to sheepishly admit, that i had given up before even trying. Really, the subconscious just did a conscious double take and deliberately skirted around having to pronounce it to anyone or even myself. I have conveniently decided to call it ‘that volcano in iceland,’ or since everybody knows about it already- ‘the volcano,’.
I have honestly not seen anything that i must attribute to the volcanic ash. Am supposed to spot ash on windscreens of the parked cars in London, but i haven’t. And then there were news items about how they erupt in pairs and such. And today the breaking news is that a second volcano might be ready to erupt and my only reaction was at least now i can pronounce that name! this time it is Hekla that is raising the heckles of Icelanders.This emission has actually caused a lot of other emissions by air to drop, I think we must congratulate the volcano on that great achievement, something that many environmentalists around the world have not been able to accomplish.
I jest, but i sincerely hope the volcano(s) do not cause harm to people and animals around and just carry on with their business- spew and splutter and go to sleep. Meanwhile maybe i soothe my frayed English pronunciation nerves and say its ok, i can at least pronounce one of the 2 volcano’s name.
Ps. And ‘that volcano is iceland’ is called…. Eyjafjallajökull. forget it. I am NOT going to even try to pretend that i can pronounce it.
