Monday, June 20, 2005
While putting up some lava pictures I got to thinking about this really REALLY hard to spell Hawaiian volcano. All the vowels make it hard to spell and say. When I have to spell it I think of it phonetically: kill ah oo ay ah -- if you can remember what vowel goes with what sound you are good. Most people pronounce it kill-ah-way-ah though. So, kilauea mispellings I've seen ...kiluea kileuea kilueae and kilouea. The current vent is a hard one too - Pu'u 'O'o, pronounced poo-oo oh-oh.

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