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[ksmith]

If I hadn't watched my first World Cup match yesterday, I wouldn't have known what a vuvuzela horn sounded like.

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[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Speaking of vuvuzela, seen this post?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2380

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it. Seen it now, though. Boy, he sounds annoyed.

Funny definition of the word in Wikipedia.

The origin of the name vuvuzela is disputed. It may have originated from Zulu for "making a vuvu noise," . No kidding. Other descriptions: Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants,"[7] "a deafening swarm of locusts,"[8] "a goat on the way to slaughter"[9] and "a giant hive full of very angry bees."[10]