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- The native pronunciation is comically short, given the length of the word. We should return the favor by somehow making Worcestershire sauce worthy of international news coverage.
- Typing the ö is easy on Macs: hit Option-U to create the umlaut, then type the O that should go under it. This accent-vowel combining technique works with any vowel and can also be used to add the acute (á) with Option-E, the grave (à) with Option-`, or the circumflex (â) with Option-I.
- Even if you ignore that it’s a proper noun and allow substitution of the ö with a regular O tile, the number of J’s makes Eyjafjallajökull impossible to spell in an English-language Scrabble game, no matter how bad your letters are.