Here is a small glimpse of what Iceland is like. I saw these two young ladies on the dock, with a jellyfish in a bucket. (A bit hard to see in the picture, it was moving around). "Is that your ..." I started to say, then stopped myself, realizing that they were only about ten and I had started in talking to them in English as if I were at home. However, "Yes," they replied, "it is our jellyfish. We caught it." In pretty much perfect English. Then they grabbed their net and went off to catch another. How the heck do ten-year olds happen to know the word for "jellyfish" in English?
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