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  • reesetee See, skip? I told you Yaybob was ready for Skinny's. :-) Dec 16, 2008

  • yaybob I had the great good pleasure of visiting Iceland in 2002. Two words that enchanted me were Þingvellir (Thingvellir), a National Park, and Snorri (who could easily have been the eighth dwarf), a common first name. I found myself repeating both words frequently to amuse myself.

    My most enduring trivial memories of the trip were a strapping, 300 lb. tour guide named Bekki, the Pizza Hut in Reykjavik that offered tuna (or, tuna fish, if you prefer) as a pizza topping, and the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which, unfortunately, was closed the day we walked by it. Dec 15, 2008

  • Prolagus In case you want to listen to the pronunciation of Icelandic words... it's the "word of the day" on Forvo. Dec 14, 2008

  • asativum It is sad, but you've got to love the spirit:

    'We come out at the weekend to forget our children and our problems, and this time we will drink extra hard to make sure we forget the economic crisis too,' says Gunnghilder, raising a glass. 'Tomorrow the sore head.'

    And I positively thrill to the fact that Iceland still seems to use patronyms -- and matronyms for women, no?

    Wow, and I just learned that Iceland abolished the letter z in 1974. How cool is that? Oct 7, 2008

  • whichbe The Party's Over For Iceland :( Oct 6, 2008

  • whichbe Icelandic Aurora by Orvar Atli Jul 28, 2008

  • bilby I have days of the week over here. Jul 11, 2008

  • bilby Well, if you're frogapplause, you're the result of fine frog performance. That's viruosoamphibiansdóttir. Jul 9, 2008

  • frogapplause I'm seriously contemplating whether to change my wordie name to frogapplausedóttir. Jul 9, 2008

  • whichbe Add me into the 'planning to move to Iceland' lot. Jul 9, 2008

  • Prolagus I will probably move here too. Jul 8, 2008

  • bilby Be nerdiculous. You're doing a fine job on this list. We're standing back in amazement more than anything else :-) Jul 7, 2008

  • frogapplause For some reason, I find adding new Icelandic words to this list very relaxing. I'd feel nerdiculous admitting this elsewhere, but I know that my new Wordie family would understand. It's a Wordie thang. Jul 7, 2008

  • asativum Wow. Thanks, moll. That's teh alsome. Maybe John isn't such a slack bastard after all. Jul 5, 2008

  • mollusque Asativum, you can mass tag the words on one of your own lists. Click "add tags" under the list name, and a tagging window will open. Jul 5, 2008

  • frogapplause I'll make sure I tag all future entries. I'll also go back and tag my past Icelandic entries. Jul 5, 2008

  • asativum Is there a way to mass-tag words? I tagged mine (I'm pretty sure) and a bunch of others individually before exhaustion overwhelmed me. Jul 5, 2008

  • Prolagus Asa, can you mass-tag all the words as Icelandic? Jul 5, 2008

  • bilby Seeing as Alaska's a bit out of the way, we could move the proposed Wordie gathering to Iceland. Jul 5, 2008

  • asativum Whichbe, you rock.

    Skipvia: Er, well, no, not everything. Just the really interesting bits. Jul 5, 2008

  • whichbe Holy crap, I must learn this language. Jul 5, 2008

  • gangerh 'yes we have no bananas' anyone? Jul 5, 2008

  • skipvia But...but...you know everything about Iceland!

    Don't you?...

    *tears begin to well up* Jul 5, 2008

  • asativum Maybe someone who actually knows Icelandic can add some more interesting words. Jul 5, 2008