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Vuvuzela or vuvuzela?

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Does any have a definitive pronounciation for vuvuzela?

Voovoo-Zella or Voo-Voozla seem to be the favourites.

Any Zulu speakers amongst us?

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All I Know

is that it's African for 'Fucking Annoying'

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ChaosandMorphine | 14 June 2010 - 3:28pm

this has been bugging me all day

I'm gonna go with voo-voozla

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James Blast | 14 June 2010 - 3:28pm

My favourite vuvuzela story

Fact: the guy who first mass produced the vuvuzela runs a parallel business selling novelty earplugs.

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Fraser Lewry | 14 June 2010 - 3:34pm

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Patrick Crowther | 14 June 2010 - 3:46pm

Vuvuzela

Gives me the horn.

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James Helford | 14 June 2010 - 4:01pm

I thought it was

Vulva - 70,000 people blowing Vulva is a mind boggling thought!!

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Steve Turner | 14 June 2010 - 4:40pm

If I'm not mistaken

and I'm sure the Stimpmeister will be quick to correct me if I am, but didn't the Aspidistra hatstand use it on track two, side two of their second ellpee?
I'm real sorry but I forget the album's name (I only heard it once back in 71 in a girl's flat, I never saw her again) and I'm also lost as to why the 'h' in hatstand was lower case, I know it has something to do with butter making and a tone generator and... nope, that's where I lose it.

too many years of abuse I'm afraid

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James Blast | 14 June 2010 - 6:28pm

are they known to afficionados

simply as "the Hatstand", or perhaps the Aspidistras ? We need to know ...

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SpaceBoy | 14 June 2010 - 6:56pm

perhaps I'm a bit too familiar

me and me mates usually refer to them as thee Ah!s, we did have a phase where they were ver'stand but settled on Ah!

punk rock, innit?

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James Blast | 14 June 2010 - 7:29pm

Pure Jonathan Coe

Have an arrow---but whether it's The (pre-) or Ver (post-76) Stand, I assume we can agree that Aspidistra Hatstand was the self-titled difficult second album ?

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SpaceBoy | 15 June 2010 - 7:53am

My only comment wou;ld be that

the 'H' of Hatstand should be in upper-case, not sure how it got lower-case in the tag cloud.

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stimpy | 15 June 2010 - 7:58am

Danny Baker

calls them Uwe Seelers. Perfect.

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Bruised Mike | 15 June 2010 - 5:40am
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