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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

An American blogger asked 1,000 people to name a UK city other than London.

Wales came in 6th place on the answers.

Can we say where places are in the UK? I had a friend who thought Cannock Chase was in Scotland.

Name a place, the next person says where it is and names another.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Aylesbury

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Aylesbury

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bucks

Much haddam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire

Taunton

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

bucks.

retford

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

American knowledge of UK is probably about as good as our knowledge of the USA.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

somerset... winchester

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"bucks.

retford"

Nottinghamshire

Skegness a nurse once told me twas in Scotland

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire

Taunton"

Somerset

Crewkerne

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

crewkerne is somerset.

alford

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lapworth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"crewkerne is somerset.

alford"

Lincolnshire

Leyland

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"crewkerne is somerset.

alford

Lincolnshire

Leyland"
Lancashire

Chipping

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"crewkerne is somerset.

alford

Lincolnshire

Leyland"

Lancs

Ramsbottom

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By *ordonBennettMan
over a year ago

dover

Oxfordshire?

Ormskirk

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Ramsbottom"

Dave

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In the north west close to southport, scarisbrick, and bigger towns Liverpool, St. Helens etc.

Sutton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ramsbottom

Dave

Hahaha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gibraltar and no, not on the coast of Spain!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In the north west close to southport, scarisbrick, and bigger towns Liverpool, St. Helens etc.

Sutton"

Which one

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Ramsbottom

Dave

Haha

Crick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gibraltar and no, not on the coast of Spain!"

The only one I know of is Lincolnshire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"crewkerne is somerset.

alford

Lincolnshire

Leyland

Lancs

Ramsbottom"
AKA Tups-Ass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In the north west close to southport, scarisbrick, and bigger towns Liverpool, St. Helens etc.

Sutton

Which one

Surrey or essex

Elgin

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"In the north west close to southport, scarisbrick, and bigger towns Liverpool, St. Helens etc.

Sutton

Which one

Surrey or essex

Elgin "

Scotland

brean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

thats what makes me laugh.

why would most americans know where places in the UK are?

not like we are near neighbours or anything.

sure, ask them about canada or mexico, dependant on which part of the US they live, and im certain they could give much more affirmative answers.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Ramsbottom

Dave

Haha

Crick"

I never know whether Crick is in Leicestershire, Warwickshire or Northamptonshire !

Shareshill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?"

With a name like that its gotta be god's country Yorkshire

whitwell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?"
is wetwang where the gangbang is?

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?

With a name like that its gotta be god's country Yorkshire

whitwell"

Derbyshire ?

nob end

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And I always thought gods country was south London

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Luss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

[Removed by poster at 05/09/13 10:46:53]

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Luss"

West side of Loch Lomond - on the high road to nowhere.

Shieldinch?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ecclefechan

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By *annGentMan
over a year ago

With a cracking view

"whitwell

Derbyshire ?

nob end"

Greater Manchester

Upper Dicker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If it ends in shire I don't know where it is. But I am not British and don't currently live here so that makes sense anyway.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Ecclefechan"

Scotland, just. It's my favourite swear word now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"whitwell

Derbyshire ?

nob end a fairway from wetwang and Pratts bottom"

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Forgot to post a place...

Twatt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ecclefechan

Scotland, just. It's my favourite swear word now.

"
Ecclefechin spot on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?

With a name like that its gotta be god's country Yorkshire

whitwell"

Notts

Yarm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is that not far from bottoms end

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know

Little britain

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Forgot to post a place...

Twatt"

no need for that

bell end !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Forgot to post a place...

Twatt

no need for that

bell end !"

Haha thats just down the road from lickey end

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little Britain (all bad DVD stores across the country)

Cockup

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I don't know

Little britain"

That's in The City of London near the Barbican.

Shitterton

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Forgot to post a place...

Twatt

no need for that

bell end !"

It's a place!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't know

Little britain

That's in The City of London near the Barbican.

Shitterton"

Dorset

Bethlehem

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Forgot to post a place...

Twatt

no need for that

bell end !

Haha thats just down the road from lickey end

and hornyold road isn't that far away from both x

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Worstershire.

Barney

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Worstershire.

Barney"

Barney = Norfolk

Cocking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few more hits for Google from this thread

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"American knowledge of UK is probably about as good as our knowledge of the USA."

Unless you've been there, and I'm pretty good at Geography anyway

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Ramsbottom"

Oi, you leave my arse out of this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Luss"

Where they used to shoot that classic TV drama... Take the High Road! Stayed in a BnB there many years ago... not exactly the most stimulating night life I've ever come across....

ted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Moscow

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

It would be better if you did the phonetic spelling of the name.

We have an estate down in Peterbrough where the residents of the street can't pronounce it properly

Belvoir

It's beaver NOT bell,vyoire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It would be better if you did the phonetic spelling of the name.

We have an estate down in Peterbrough where the residents of the street can't pronounce it properly

Belvoir

It's beaver NOT bell,vyoire"

Okay, pronounce this one near to me....

Trottiscliffe.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It would be better if you did the phonetic spelling of the name.

We have an estate down in Peterbrough where the residents of the street can't pronounce it properly

Belvoir

It's beaver NOT bell,vyoire"

Same in Leicester! I was meeting someone in"beaver st" after walking up and down the road looking for it, someone had to explain that they spelt it Belvoir and pronounced it beaver! Wtf ?

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

That's a interesting one.

Tross lee

I fire back Magdalen College

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"It would be better if you did the phonetic spelling of the name.

We have an estate down in Peterbrough where the residents of the street can't pronounce it properly

Belvoir

It's beaver NOT bell,vyoire

Same in Leicester! I was meeting someone in"beaver st" after walking up and down the road looking for it, someone had to explain that they spelt it Belvoir and pronounced it beaver! Wtf ? "

Both after Belvoir Castle, beautiful looking estate overlooking the A52

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That's a interesting one.

Tross lee

I fire back Magdalen College"

Maudlin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As a foreigner coming to England lots of place names sound different to the way they're spelt

Thames

Leicestershire

Cockburn

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

Wait until you get local pronunciations as well

Two good examples here close to us.

The first is what people outside the area call it, the others what locals or the older age group call it.

fengate... Bungit

Cowbit.. Kubit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That's a interesting one.

Tross lee

I fire back Magdalen College"

Take a team point! And it's Mawdlin...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As a foreigner coming to England lots of place names sound different to the way they're spelt

Thames

Leicestershire

Cockburn

And Marylebone.

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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"It would be better if you did the phonetic spelling of the name.

We have an estate down in Peterbrough where the residents of the street can't pronounce it properly

Belvoir

It's beaver NOT bell,vyoire"
To be fair you have mispelt it yourself.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

Ahh yeah Peterborough..

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Pronunciation of a specific place is often very different.

Ilkeston, is a town and most folk would say it as they see it, locals pronounce it Ilson though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Slouthwaite is pronounced Slowit

West Yorks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"American knowledge of UK is probably about as good as our knowledge of the USA."

Indeed it is! Unless you're some kind of Geography buff, you'd never know the names of any but the most popular/toursisty type cities. I myself could only name a handful of towns in the UK, but would be shit to tell you the exact location of that town.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one I was made to look a plonker over was about 20 years ago in Edinburgh. The guy at the airport told me I needed a bus to 'Kerrr-staw-fin'.

I let about five buses go past before I got on one, asked the driver and he looked at me like I was a dim-witted Sassenach, pointed to the name board showing 'Corstorphine' and said.. 'there ya gooo! Kerrrr-staw-fin!'. One felt a bit of a twat....

ted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little Wenlock

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Little Wenlock"

A Domesday mention to this place in Shropshire.

Nob End

Plus, people can't say Holborn either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Barton in the Beans

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it in Staffordshire?

Anyone know where wetwang is?"

On the way to Scarborough

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Pott Shrigley.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody knows scotland is a small town in englandshire!

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By *issBehavingxxWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Pott Shrigley. "

Near macclesfield.... so Cheshire??

Pittenweem...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seriously, how many Chileans, Bolivians, Guatamalens and loads others would know much about the UK?

Any of you think an Innuit in pursuit of a juicy seal is gonna know where Wetwang is?

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

FYI - Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Met an American on a Greyhound Bus in Texas. His ambition was to visit England, he wanted to work his way from coast to coast. I had to explain that if he was just north of Wales and we were talking East and West coasts he could do it in an afternoon.

Often it's their sense of scale that confuses them.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The thread really wasn't written to be about whether American's know any cities in the UK other than London. It was a hook/a device to play a game seeing if UK residents know places in the UK.

Piddle at Little Puddle.

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

Dorset, where the river Piddle runs

Wyre Piddle ?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Dorset, where the river Piddle runs

Wyre Piddle ?

Is it near Evie!? I'm not certain but that's where comes to mind.

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

"Dorset, where the river Piddle runs

Wyre Piddle ?

Is it near Evie!? I'm not certain but that's where comes to mind."

Don't know where Evie is but Worcestershire.

Ospisdale ?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Dorset, where the river Piddle runs

Wyre Piddle ?

Is it near Evie!? I'm not certain but that's where comes to mind.

Don't know where Evie is but Worcestershire.

Ospisdale ?"

She's Evesham.

I don't know Ospisdale

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sutherland ?

where is affpuddle ?

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

[Removed by poster at 05/09/13 21:04:42]

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dunno but I am going to guess Wiltshire.

Being a complete pedant, I just want to point out the blogger who set the questionnaire is actually British and lives in Manchester, England.

Right, back to the quiz

Broadwoodwidger

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

"sutherland ?

where is affpuddle ?"

Yes, Highlands.

Affouddle is Dorset too.

Cummersdale?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dorset.

Where's Youlgreave (stinker, has multiple ways of spelling it)

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By *issBehavingxxWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Dorset.

Where's Youlgreave (stinker, has multiple ways of spelling it)"

Derbyshire I think?

Where's Pittenweem

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Dunno but I am going to guess Wiltshire.

Being a complete pedant, I just want to point out the blogger who set the questionnaire is actually British and lives in Manchester, England.

Right, back to the quiz

Broadwoodwidger"

Thank you. I didn't know that.

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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago

Bridgwater - Somerset

"Dorset.

Where's Youlgreave (stinker, has multiple ways of spelling it)

Derbyshire I think?

Where's Pittenweem"

The East Nuke of Fyfe

Cummersdale?

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