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How to say place names most get wrong, from Laos and Leicester to New Orleans and Oaxaca

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How to say place names most get wrong, from Laos and Leicester to New Orleans and Oaxaca

Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano gained worldwide attention when it erupted in the spring of 2010. Aircraft were grounded and newsreaders struggled with a collection of letters that would score highly in a game of Scrabble. Smoke and ash billow from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano on April 21, 2010. Photo: AFP The BBC suggested that “AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl-uh” was a … Read more

Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

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Look for Sri Lanka’s connections to Southorn Playground in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai on a trip around the island nation, ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’

Southorn was introduced to Woof by her brother, the English literary figure Leonard Woolf, when the two men worked as colonial administrators in what was then British Ceylon. Southorn Playground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is linked to colonial Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). Photo: Jonathan Wong Bella Woof was an accomplished writer in her … Read more