More

News Reporters Unable To Pronounce Eyjafjallajökull (VIDEO)


First Posted: 06/19/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:10 PM ET

Gross
 Funny
 Crazy
 Adorable
 Weird
 Amazing
 Finally
 Nerdy

Eyjafjallajökull. That's hard to type, never mind pronounce. That in mind, we can't help but sympathize with these news reporters having a little trouble getting the name of the Icelandic volcano to roll off their tongues. You can only imagine their fright as Eyjafjallajökull came scrolling up on that teleprompter. (via Urlesque)

WATCH:



FOLLOW HUFFPOST COMEDY

Eyjafjallajökull. That's hard to type, never mind pronounce. That in mind, we can't help but sympathize with these news reporters having a little trouble getting the name of the Icelandic volcano...
Eyjafjallajökull. That's hard to type, never mind pronounce. That in mind, we can't help but sympathize with these news reporters having a little trouble getting the name of the Icelandic volcano...
Related News On Huffington Post:
 

Read more from Huffington Post bloggers:
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Lesson of the Volcano

Silence, says the volcano, silence, I'm the one who is speaking now. Nobody move. Until further notice, your flying machines are no longer allowed in the sky. And no one, it's true, is stirring.
Andy Plesser

Andy Plesser: Volcanic Ash Crisis to Drive Video Teleconference Use (Video)

Whether the travel crisis eases quickly or not, we expect that the volcano disaster will motivate businesses and institutions to establish viable video conferencing strategies.
Michael Russnow

Michael Russnow: The Volcano May Leave Me Stranded in Paris and Cologne: Life Could Be Worse

Even if the clouds of ash remain for the next week, there are worse things than being stranded in Paris. Don't you think?

Filed by Dan Abramson  |  Report Corrections

More in Comedy...


 
 
  • Comments
  • 11
  • Pending Comments
  • 0
  • View FAQ
Comments are closed for this entry
View All
Recency  | 
Popularity
photo
aequo animo
4 Fans
04:38 PM on 04/20/2010
Yeah but, maybe they could practice (the job) while they're sitting in their make-up chairs instead of texting gossip; I'm embarrassed by newscasters who don't take what they're doing seriously-why not wear a t-shirt and jeans if world news is so funny?
Permalink  |
photo
wellingtonian
55 Fans
03:59 AM on 04/20/2010
All our news reporters simply refer to it as "the icelandic volcano". Well played, Hillary Barry, well played.
Permalink  |
photo
janha
181 Fans
12:04 AM on 04/20/2010
Gee, I thought all those sounded pretty good.
Permalink  |
photo
LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
1543 Fans
09:38 PM on 04/19/2010
This should the tagline on a movie poster:

FIRST, THERE WAS AHMADINEJAD
THEN, THERE WAS BLAGOJEVICH
BUT NEITHER OF THEM WAS ANY MATCH FOR...
EYJAFJALLAJOKULL
Permalink  |
starjack
astrologer & radical queer muslim activist
220 Fans
07:56 PM on 04/19/2010
I recently had lunch with an Icelandic gent... nice fellow. He pronounced English words kind of funny, too. Trust me, a lot of reporters have as much trouble with other foreign names and phrases. "Ahmadinejead" anyone? "Eyjafjallajökull" is quite a mouthful, and who outside of Iceland would guess that the double-L is pronounced as if the first L were a D?
Permalink  |
photo
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
Prousa
Intelligence and Tolerance are not unAmerican.
348 Fans
04:44 PM on 04/19/2010
This sucks. We need to have our volcanoes in more pronounceable places.
Permalink  |
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
RButler
"Who wouldn't love a person who had a pony?"
1735 Fans
04:01 PM on 04/19/2010
Now, is it 'east of Java'?
Permalink  |
This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program
photo
ramblingjohnny
148 Fans
 
03:28 PM on 04/19/2010
That explain why they been using "That Volcano" a lot on TV instead of the name!
Permalink  |
WanderingOak
6 Fans
09:43 AM on 04/19/2010
Garrison Keilor had a hilarious Guy Noir segment on last Saturday's Prairie Home Companion, where he had various 'celebrities' attempt to pronounce the name of the volcano. Obama was able to get it right, while Dubya was reduced to the level of a babbling toddler...
Permalink  |
This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program
sc29403
162 Fans
10:38 AM on 04/19/2010
Upon hearing this story I wondered who would say it better if they had to address it in a news conference: Bush, Palin, Obama, Cheney? I went with Obama for obvious reasons. Palin should be able to say it given her communications degree, but I doubt it; Bush...well, I think we all know what the outcome of that would be.........and Cheney?? He would not be saying it at all because he does not give a damn about anything other than himself and bashing Obama!

I'm sorry I missed Garrison on this one; do you think clips of some sort can be heard online?
Permalink  |
AverageJill
51 Fans
06:35 AM on 04/20/2010
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
Permalink  |