Band Names We've All Been Mispronouncing

It can be hard to pronounce names that aren't spelled in a standard way, and when you add in cultural or creative factors seemingly simple words get mangled and mispronounced even more often.

During the radio days band names were rarely mispronounced because radio DJs said them aloud, but streaming music services don't come with pronunciation guides and names like Haim and Die Antwoord can be hard to figure out on your own.

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This video shared by Grunge should help clear up some of the band name confusion, but actually understanding what Yolandi and Ninja are thinking remains a mystery.


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How does a fish die and become fossilized in the act of giving birth?

[from page 2 of the article] "The fish and its unborn offspring probably fell victim to rapid depletion of oxygen in the water, settling to the bottom of the sea where they were gently covered in layers of silt-like mud that hardened over time, according to the scientists."
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attenboroughi?
hah.

And how would oxygen be depleted THAT quickly... almost a split second? It would be gradual... surely the fish wouldn't still be attached to its mother...
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That's what I thought... there's lots of reasons for a fish to die. There could have been some illness or trauma that caused the umbilical cord to not detach, which also caused death, or something could have gone wrong with the birth process. Maybe she was old. Who knows?
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