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Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.
Yeah, can someone help me out with a pronunciation guide on that one?
Xavleg (zav-leg) is the accepted "short" name for when you need to say it out loud or write it and can't be bothered to put the whole thing
The whole thing is an abbreviation for a bunch of gross shit with X's on the front and end.
English speakers most often use a Z sound for an X at the start of the word, like xenon and xylophone. I'm ignorant of how it would be pronounced by speakers of other languages, but all my conversations about the band (all three of them, lol) have been in English
But in Afrikaans it'd be a ks
In German x is pronounced ks or kz