and amidst the volcanic ash...

Eyjafjallajökull: "...thousands of people, some of them highly paid television and radio newscasters, found themselves tumbling down the vowel-and-liquid-consonant-lubricated slopes of Eyjafjallajokull, the mountain’s 16-letter, six-and-a-half-syllable, 47-Scrabble-point name." ---NYT

(but only if you play with the new Scrabble rules that allow proper nouns of course.)

thanks gen for the highlight on this one!