Volcano Eyjafjallajokull, has left thousands of travellers stranded around the world, but it's also wreaking havoc for tongue twisted newsreaders.
Reports from the US reveal the name is so unpronounceable, some journalists aren't even sure if 'Eyjafjallajokull' is pronounced correctly.
Suffering from 'volcanic naming avoidance syndrome', Saturday Night Live caught onto the way the press was handling the tongue twister.
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"By huge clouds of ash shot into air by Iceland's, I hope I'm saying this right, volcano."
Even the US military has been struggling with the pronunciation and it's already shortened the 16 letter word to E-15.
Last night SBS news reader Neena Mairata pronounced the volcano without stumbling.
Fancy pronouncing it yourself?
Eyjafjallajokull = EY-ya-FYAH-la-HYUR-kull
