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Contrast [[No Pronunciation Guide]]. See Also: [[Uranus Is Showing]].
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMe3WDmxBEI One A&W rootbeer commercial] features a particularly clueless job candidate repeatedly referring to his interviewer as Mr. "Dumbass". Eventually, the interviewer states that his name (clearly visible on a nameplate as "Mr. DuMass") is actually pronounced "DOO-Mahss". Then he says behind the candidate's back, "What a dumbass."
* In one commercial for Glade scented candles, a woman tries to pass off her new candles as fancy foreign candles. She removes the label and attempts to throw it away, but struggles with the adhesive and it ends up sticking to her skirt in the vicinity of her rear end. After she responds to questioning about whether it was a Glade candle with, "No, it's, uh, French. [[Shaped Like Itself|From France.]]", one of her friends pulls the label off of her and sarcastically asks, "Haven't you ever heard of glah-DAY?"
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* In a Walmart StraightTalk commercial, a woman insists a certain vegetable is "absolutely pronounced ''ahn-deev''" because of her [[Mock Millionaire|supposed new riches]] after cutting her cell phone bill in half.
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* In ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'', one character corrects the fact that Rakka refers to him as Hiyoko, pointing out it's "Hyohko", with exaggerated emphasis on the "oh" sound to make the pronunciation difference clear.
* In the first few chapters of the ''[[Sakura Wars]]'' manga, Sumire mispronounces Ogami's name every time she speaks to him. When he mispronounces her name as "tsumire" in response, she flies into a rage. (But she had cause; what woman would want to be called a meatball instead of a flower?)
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''; Edo's card "Destiny Hero Bloo-D" is pronounced "blue-dee", not "bloody", despite the monster having a blood-theme.
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* Writer Christopher Priest added a recurring character named Dr. Vilain during his run on ''[[Steel]]''. The doctor wasn't really evil, just ruthless, and would constantly remind people. "It's French, it's pronounced 'will-HAYN'". Of course, it's not pronounced like that in French. For the record, "vilain" does exist in French, but an accurate translation would be something like "naughty", not exactly fitting for an evil alias.
* Make no mistake, Victor Fries' last name is pronounced "Freeze" (off-topic, but just like Charles Fries of Fries Entertainment).
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* Mi-Tse (villain from German comic ''[[Nick Knatterton]]'') is not pronounced "Mieze" (typical name for cats in Germany).
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* [[Megamind]] seems to have this as something of a [[Verbal Tic]]. Most notably, he pronounces Metro City as "Metrocity" (rhymes with atrocity) and School as [[Bilingual Bonus|Shool]].
* ''[[Better Off Dead]]''. When Lane Meyer (John Cusack) invites the French foreign exchange student from across the street to dinner, his mother, seeking to impress, serves exotic dishes like "Frahnch fries" and salad with "Frahnch dressing". And to drink: Peru!
* Coincidentally in another Cusack film, [[Serendipity]], his character continues to pronounce mignon as "minion" despite a Frenchman's protests to the contrary.
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* Yet ''another'' Mel Brooks example: Count DeMonet DEE-Moe-NAY, not, The Money) in ''[[History of the World Part One]]''.
* Apparently, Mel Brooks ''really'' liked having fun with this one. Reversed in ''[[The Producers]]'': "Jacques Lepideux... Jacques Lepideux... Jack Lapidus?"
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* Heather Horney in ''[[Wayne's World]] 2''. It's pronounced "hor-NAY", but Garth calls her "Miss Horny" even after hearing it pronounced correctly.
* In ''[[The Comedy Of Terrors]]'', the central characters had several exchanges along these lines:
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* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[L.A. Story]]'': Harris ([[Steve Martin]]) and his friends agree to meet at a trendy new restaurant whose name is pronounced "leed-YO", but when the scene shifts there, we see that it's actually spelled "L'Idiot", and that ''is'' the correct pronunciation in French.
* ''[[The Last Airbender]]''. Director [[M. Night Shyamalan]] instructed actors to pronounce several words ("Ong", "Ahvatar", "Soaka", "Ee-roh") as though their written forms followed transliteration conventions for Asian languages, rather than being intended to best approximate their actual pronunciation with conventional English spelling. Except "avatar" has long been an English word, and one can probably assume that the original creators of the animated series didn't have the voice actors incorrectly pronounce ''names they made up.''
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'': It's "Levi-O-sa", not "Levio-Sa!"
* In ''The Comebacks'', George Johnson insists his name is pronounced "Jorge Juanson" in a feeble attempt to accentuate his Latin heritage
* ''[[The Specials]]'': Minute Man is constantly correcting people that it's "[[Berserk Button|My-noot Man!]] Do I look like a soldier from the Revolutionary War? I don't think so! Am I wearing a three-cornered hat? No! I turn small. Think!"
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{{quote|'''Major Calloway''': That's Call''oway'', not "Callahan." I'm English, not Irish.}}
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* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** Amusingly, many of the cast in Sky One's ''Hogfather'' miniseries find more than one way to pronounce Te-ah-ti-meh" each, including Marc Warren (Mr. Teatime himself).
** This is brilliantly translated in French: Mr. Teatime is called M. Lheureduthé (which means exactly ''Teatime'') but wants people to pronounce it like "Le Redouté" -- ''The Feared''.
* Another ''[[Discworld]]'' one, from the ''[[
** Also from the ''Tiffany Aching'' subseries: Roland de Chumsfanleigh, pronounced "Chuffley". Usually footnoted with, "It wasn't his fault."
* One more ''[[Discworld]]'' example: Edward d'Eath. This is a [[Real Life]] surname, though.
** And originally almost always spelled "Death". The surname derives from men who played the character of Death in the medieval mystery plays each English town put
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** In ''Murder Must Advertise'' (and in at least one other story: "A Matter of Taste" perhaps?){{verify}} he uses the pseudonym Death Bredon and remarks, more or less, "It's usually rhymed with teeth but I find it so much more fun to rhyme it with breath."
* Perhaps inspiring the Count de Money mentioned above, the novel ''[[The Red and The Black]]'' has a character named the Comte de Thaler (thaler as in [[Meaningful Name|the German word that became "dollar"]]) who is a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of one of the Rothschilds and whose German name would be pronounced "Thalay" in France.
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* Inverted by Chris Cwej in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] spin-off novels. His surname should be pronounced "Shvay", but because everyone pronounces it "Kwedge" he's decided to go along with it. In his first appearance, although his new partner Roz Forrester pronounces it ''correctly'', he corrects her.
* In ''Don Juan'' by [[Lord Byron]]: In order to rhyme with such phrases as "new one" and "true one", the name Don Juan has to be pronounced "don-DZHU-an". It ''was'' pronounced that way in England during Byron's time.
* Sneaking onto Imperial Center as a battered, partly cybernetic Imperial pilot, [[X Wing Series|Wedge Antilles]] goes by Colonel Antar Roat, and has to tell a customs official that it's pronounced Ro-at. The buzz of the voice modulator—cybernetic
* In M.L.N. Hanover's ''Black Sun's Daughter'' series, the main character, Jayné, is used to people mispronouncing her name as "Jane" when it is actually supposed to be pronounced "Zha-nay" in the French manner.
* [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] had lots of fun with this. A particularly memorable example would be in ''Indiscretions of Archie'', when the title character explains that his surname, Moffam, is pronounced "Moom". To rhyme with Bloffingham.
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different|Thomas]] [[Horny Devils|Raith]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' goes by (as [[Snark Knight|Harry]] puts it) "toe-MOSS" while posing as a [[Camp Gay|gay]] [[Chatty Hairdresser|hairdresser]].
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* Mrs Bucket from ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'' insists that it's pronounced Boo-KAY.
** "The '''Bouquet''' residence! The lady of the house speaking!!"
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*** Well, the sisters are all named after flowers...
*** Apparently inspired by a real-life acquaintance of Roy Clarke who insisted their surname ("Bottom") was pronounced "Bo-TOME".
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* ''[[Married... with Children]]'': Kelly met the man who made her parents' couch. His name is "Mary" but he corrected her, insisting it's "Mar-AY". She then commented about being Bus-AY.
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* Sade is pronounced "shah-DAY", or /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ in IPA. [[I Am Not Shazam|And it was only supposed to be the name of her band, not the singer herself.]] [[Sure Why Not|Although she did change her name to Sade.]]
** Made worse in (most of) North America, as the first Sade album featured the pronunciation guide "Pronounced SHAR-DAY," assuming a [[British Accents|British pronunciation]]. The result: many DJs and television hosts articulated the nonexistent "R" sound.
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* Kerli's name is pronounced "carely", not "curly".
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* [[The Other Wiki]] has an [[wikipedia:List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations|article]] about names like these.
* Pretty much the entire point of [http://www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationbook Pronunciation Book]
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** This is fairly common in Japanese wrestling, and generally only done by heels.
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* Brian Regan has a comedy routine in which he has trouble remembering names, and he stresses the difficulty of making a mistake when somebody else's name is similar to another.
{{quote|"Oh, hey there, Carolyn."
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* Jimmy Carr had a joke where he mentioned how he read the word "chav" before actually hearing it, and thought it was pronounced "shav".
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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has the bulette, whose name is "pronounced Boo-lay." If it were really a French word, that is exactly how it ''wouldn't'' be pronounced. Apparently, it's now back to being the "bullet", as the person who wrote the 2nd Edition caption was being pretentious. In his last [[Podcast]] before he left [[Wizards of the Coast]], Dave Noonan joked that he pronounces it "land shark."
** There are also the evil fish-men called the sahuagin, which is frequently pronounced "sa-HWA-gin" but is officially (according to the sourcebook ''The Sea Devils'') supposed to be "sa-HOO-a-gin".
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** Apparently it is Catachan is cat-a-can, no idea why.
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* William Barfée ("it's Bar-FAY") from the musical ''[[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee]]''.
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* ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'': "My name is GAH-linda, with a GAH!" (and later, ""In honer of Dr. Dillmond, I officially change my name! From now on, I will be known as Glinda, with''out'' the GAH, because that's how he always pronounced it.")
* In ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore|HMS Pinafore]]'' the first name of the character Ralph Rackstraw is pronounced Rafe, as is usual in the UK. (The name is rhymed with "waif" in "A many years ago.")
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But only half the cock is used. }}
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* Derby [pronounced "DAR-bee"] in ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]''. Which is how you pronounce the horse race, the city, or half of the county Derbyshire (DAR-bee-shur) in England.
* Charmles in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' refers to himself as "Sharm-LAY". He's the only one who does—everyone calls him "CHARM-ulz", or [[Prince Charmless|Charmless]] when he's not looking.
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* [[Galaga]] (GAL-a-ga), similarly to how you would pronounce "Gallagher" (the comedian best known for his "Sledge-O-Matic" routine)
* Because of Japanese double consonants, [[Tekken]] is pronounced "Tek-KEN", and not "TEK-ken".
* [[Metroid]]: It's not "Zeebs", or "Zeebees", or even "Zeebus", it's
* In ''[[Mega Man 8]]'', because there's [[No Pronunciation Guide]], the characters mistakenly calls Bass as the fish. Of course, [[Memetic Mutation|it's actually BASE.]]
* The villain of the third season of [[Telltale Games]] ''[[Sam and Max]]'' is an albino gorilla from space named General Skun-ka'pe (skoon-KAH-pay), so naturally our heroes call him "Skunk Ape". However, everyone understands who they mean, and no one corrects them.
* Not mentioned in the games themselves, but Pokémon is pronounced po-kay-mon. Not po-kee-mon, not po-kee-man, and not po-kay-man. See the little notes about the title at the bottom of the page? Yeah, the accent over the e makes all the difference. And
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** And then there are some of the Pokémon themselves whom people from the games and anime have trouble deciding pronunciation on. For example, Bonsly alternated on being called "bonz-lee" or "bonz-lie", before it seemed settled on the latter. Then there are other glaring mistakes, such as how the announcer in Stadium can call Ekans "Ee-kenz" when the mini-game featuring Ekans in Stadium 1 and the characters in the anime referred to it as "eh-kanz". ([[Wild Mass Guessing|Or perhaps there's an in-universe potayto-potahto dialect difference]].)
* ''[[Drakengard]]'' has several:
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** ''Tales'' also has every single character pronounce "La Esponja Grande" with "esponja" pronounced with a J sound (es-pon-JA). Not until the ''very end of the final episode'' does Elaine FINALLY say "Actually, it's pronounced 'es-pon-HA' with an 'H' sound at the end?"
** And of those who pronounce the word "Caribbean" as "''CA-ri-BEE-an''", only Morgan pronounces it as "''cuh-RIH-bee-an''".
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{{quote|'''Galeb:''' Don't worry, Carniferouswood--
'''Guybrush:''' Oh, come on, that doesn't even sound like "Threepwood." }}
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* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'''s prequel book ''[[Start of Darkness]]'', [[Big Bad]] Xykon repeatedly corrects people who spell his name "Zykon"... even in their speech balloons.
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* A running joke in the "Jack and Dean" videos involves Dean pronouncing [[Facebook]] "Fack-ee-book" for the sole purpose of annoying Jack.
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* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "To Hare Is Human", Wile E. Coyote introduces himself to [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] as "Wile E. Coy-OH-Tay".
* In ''[[Hercules (1997 film)
* Used in ''[[Kim Possible]]'', when Kim meets her brothers' guidance counselor.
{{quote|'''Kim:''' ... Miss... Guide?
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* Newscaster Brian Pinhead (pih-NAYD) on ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''.
* On ''[[Bobby's World]]'', Bobby's family name is Generic, pronounced JEN-eh-rik and mispronounced by everyone else in the world.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
*
** Also
** There's also Krabappel which is pronounced "Cruh-BAW-pull". Despite coming up with numerous insulting nicknames for her, none of her students ever think to call her "crab-apple". In one episode, there's a set-up where Homer is surprised at hearing the correct pronunciation of her name, only for him to cry "I've been calling her 'Krandall'!"
** And again when Bart corrects Homer on the pronounciation of "party", insisting that it's "par-TAY".
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{{quote|'''Instructor:''' Simpson, as you have experience in a nuclear power plant, you can serve on a submarine.
'''Homer:''' Nu-cue-lar. It's pronounced nu-cue-lar. }}
{{quote|'''Marge:''' Next to Spring and Winter, Fall is my absolute favorite season. Just look at all this beautiful foilage.
'''Lisa:''' It's not "foilage," mom, it's "foliage."
'''Marge:''' That's what I said, foilage. It doesn't take a nucular scientist to pronounce foilage. }}
* Zapp Brannigan from ''[[Futurama]]'' often has trouble with loanwords:
{{quote|'''Zapp:''' Champaggen?
'''Leela:''' ''(sarcastically)'' I didn't realize you were such a coin-a-sewer. }}
{{quote|'''Zapp:''' ''(eating a poppler, which, it turns out, are the larval form of the Omicronians)'' Mmm, these would go great with gwack-a-mole!
'''Lrr:''' Stop eating our young! [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And it's pronounced "gwah-kah-moh-lay"]]! }}
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'''Brian:''' ... Peter, that says "audit".
'''Peter:''' No, Brian, it's a foreign car. The "T" is silent. }}
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Ha ha, you said "nuclear"! It's "nucular", you dummy, the "S" is silent.}}
* Done in an episode of ''[[The Proud Family]]'', where Penny gains a case of [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]] and insists on "Penn-AY".
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{{quote|'''Pinkie Pie:''' Ooooh. They don't want to party. These ponies want to par-TAY!}}
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* Allegedly actress Jean Harlow was at dinner with Margot Asquith (wife of the UK Prime Minister at the time) and kept pronouncing her name with the "t". Eventually Asquith told her "No, Jean, the 'T' is silent, [[Stealth Insult|like in 'Harlow']]".
* In England, the surname Berkley is pronounced B'''ar'''kley.
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*** A [[wikipedia:Great Vowel Shift|Great Vowel Shift]] during the settlement of the New World, perhaps?
*** And "Berkshire" is pronounced "Bark-shire". But the abbreviated form "berk" (rhyming slang: berk = Berkshire Hunt = cunt; usage: insult) is still pronounced "berk", not "bark".
**** The rhyming slang takes its name from the Berkeley Hunt. Which is, of course, pronounced "BARK-lee".
* Possible case: Nicholas Cage pronounces his son [[Superman|Kal-El's]] name as ka-LELL, despite the hyphen making the correct pronunciation perfectly obvious. More likely he simply pronounces it the same way as Brando did in Superman.
* Ralph ("Rafe") Fiennes ("Fines") definitely falls into this category.
** Also the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
* Scottish actor Gerard (JAYR-id) Butler played King Leonidas in ''[[300]]'', whereas [[Joisey]]-born Gerard (juh-RAWRD) Way is the lead singer of [[My Chemical Romance]].
* John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House. His last name is pronounced BAY-ner, not [[Unfortunate Names|"boner"]].
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* Actor [[Sports Night|Peter]] [[Six Feet Under|Krause]] pronounces his surname "KRAU-zuh," rather than the more-common-in-America single-syllable pronunciation.
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=== Australia===
* The Canberra suburb of Manuka is pronounced 'mahn-NAH-ka', not 'mah-NU-ka' like the plant.
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=== Canada ===
* Newfoundland is not, in fact, New-Found-Land, it's Newfin-LAND.
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** To add to the confusion, Leif Ericsson discovered "Vinland" (Wineland), which is thought to be the southern tip of Newfoundland.
** Though some people pronounce it more like Newfun-land.
* People who live in or near [[Toronto]] tend to pronounce the city's name as something rather like "Tronno". Sportscaster Don Cherry tends to pronounce Toronto as "trah-na".
* A university in Halifax and a road in Ottawa are both named Dalhousie. The school's name is pronounced "dal-haw-sie", the road's is "dal-hoo-sie".
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* Depending on where you are in the U.K own seems to turn into aarn. For example Town turns into Taarn, Down turns into Daarn and Brown turns to Braarn while 'own' turns into 'who-wen'. Similarly round turns into Raarned and found turns into Faarned. This is mostly faarned raarned the Yorkshire area or more specifically the Barnsley area. The pronunciations can make it very confusing to people not familiar with the area. The other wiki covers more of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_dialect_and_accent
* UK place names again: Edinburgh, Middlesbrough and Loughborough are in wildly different parts of the country (Scotland, North Yorkshire and Leicestershire respectively) and all pronounce the section of their names after the B as Borough despite the different spelling. Even weirder is the town of Brough which doesn't pronounce it like the similarly spelt Middlesbrough, but pronounces it as Bruff.
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** Another strange variation: Norfolk, Nebraska is frequently pronounced NOR-fork
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* "Tahr-ZHAY" (Target), normally as a humorous jab at the store.
** Some people think that the company is French, despite Target being [[Did Not Do the Research|headquartered in Minneapolis]].
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