American Reacts to Words that are Different in Britain
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As an American there are many words we use here in the United States that have a completely different meaning in Britain. Today I am very interested in learning about words that Brits use differently. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
'Carry On' Screaming/Camping/Cleo/Doctor... Sorry, I'll get me coat...
You don't need to! 😊
Carry on camping
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pmsl!
@@scotmax8426 Thinking about it, Odd Bod and Keir Starmer look pretty much alike!
@@robcrossgrove7927 hahahaahah oh so many Scots regretting that decision now lol.
I'm English, knocking on a bit, and can confirm that 'carry on' or 'carrying on' was definitely a way of alluding to having a 'bit of how's your father' with someone other than your 'trouble and strife' or 'old pot and pan'. I'm sure I've made myself clear.
I have never called it an american muffin. We usually just call it the type of muffin it is. Such as chocolate muffin, blueberry muffin
The "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters were hardly ever used (if ever) and long forgotten until a pile of them was found in a bookshop in 2000.
One! And they were hardly ever issued at the time.
A single copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick housed in the old station building.
Huh? We use words differently? No YOU DO! FFS It's our language after all!
However, often I find words I think Americans are using “wrong” is actually how we Brits used the word when we abandoned the colony and left them to their own devices. We subsequently changed the rules without bothering to tell them. ;)
Do you know what "differently" means?
@@nedludd7622 Yes I definitely do, do YOU? Stop being a smart arse and admit that Americans have bastardised the English language.
@@nedludd7622we know what it means. However it is not appropriate for use in this context. Americans are just wrong when they mangle our language
@@monty2005 no…no they’re not mate. Just as someone in Scotland using words differently to someone in London is not “wrong”, nor is a teenager using words differently to their grandparents.
English is and always has been an ever changing language. It’s constantly evolving and adapting and adopting different words and usage. American and British English have evolved separately to such an extent that they even have their own separate dictionaries.
If something is "a right carry on" it means it's a complete fiasco.
Yes I agree (Derbys.)
In Glasgow that would mean something was hilarious funny.
Bangers and mash with onion gravy is lovely
Agree!
onion gravy with anything is lovely lol
"Banger" is not a generic term for fireworks. It's a specific firework that has no visual effects, but you throw it on the ground and it goes bang.
Carry on can also mean a farce or a mess. "That meeting last night ,what a carry on" . I believe it comes from the British "carry on "series of films ( much missed).
I think the films took the meaning rather than the other way round.
The films took their titles FROM the expression, "What a right carry-on..." (NOT the other way round). 🤔 Just saying... 😊
All fireworks are not called 'bangers' just a small one that goes 'bang'!!! The others have their own names like rockets, roman candles, sparklers, catherine wheels, etc..
And all sausages are not bangers as well
There's a British joke about the English language....
'There's two versions of the English language, the British way and the wrong way!'
Tyler I would stop listening to this guy tbh he's more American than British in my opinion dont agree on alot of his vids
Exactly he lived their way to long when he something about our fridge freezers he think we only have a single freezer that gassed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Average American? Nope, make that below average.
im convinced that tyler is a MEME.
nope he's just very good at acting... he's playing you all for views very clever guy
The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was printed by HMSO (the Government Stationery Office until the 70's) but never issued, only discovered after WWII. The brown envelope with HMSO along the top front landing on the doormat was a feared letter as often had a Tax demand inside.
What we call a muffin is like a blueberry muffin etc, I've never heard it called an american muffin in my life. When we say carry on it means continue doing something. These references are very obscure. Also we don't call fireworks bangers lol, methinks Laurence is running out of ideas
Like why the fuck would it be American muffin when Europe had been baking for centuries. America didn't invent shit hahahaha apple pie is British FFS
Carry on means like a chew on, like "works been a right carry on today ", or you can use it to tell someone to stop Messing about, like "stop carrying on"
We know the difference between a baked muffin and a breakfast muffin, that is odd he said American. "What a carry on" is basically something being farcical or messing around or taking to long. A banger is basically a firecracker in the states I would of thought, not a firework.
Whatever we call something is what it is actually called. If you say anything different it's something you've made up in the past 200 years.
You mean something like "soccer"? That is an English word which described what they changed to "football" about 150 years ago.
@@nedludd7622 Not really. Soccer is just an informal term to differentiate between 'rugby football' and 'association football'.
Exactly
_"No representation without taxation."_ What England says, goes, as far as English is concerned.
What about Fall?. The old British word for Autumn, they still use it, we changed it.
Remember, G. B. Shaw said that Americans and Brits are two nations divided by a common language.
Modern field hockey was invented in England, but a similar game originated in Persia several hundred years before. Ice hockey was invented later. They are both related to a game called lacrosse.
There's always similarities between inventions. Unless you're Chinese, who invented _everything_ .
Irish Hurling came literally thousands of years before. We have records of hurling being played going back a long long time.
He didn't mention another meaning to carry on. It can also mean a bit of a farce or a shambles. I. E. What a carry on this is.
Fun fact: I had my Firefox youtube window only at 90% size and when I loaded this video, it said "Tyler Rump" and I laughed xD
LOL Fanny in USA is about two to three inches out from what we call a Fanny in the Uk! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Keep calm
and carry on… as normal 😉
In most of the ENGLISH-speaking world, carrying on can also mean having a hissy fit. 😮 Also, "field hockey" is the most popular version worldwide, eg. In Australia, UK, NZ, Netherlands, India, Pakistan, Argentina, Germany....
Banger. Usually another word for a sausage, "Bangers and mash". Or a firework, the sort that just go bang. They generally don't have pretty sparks, or zoom up into the air. They just explode. And can cause very severe injury.
An old, tatty car is often referred to as an old banger. But I think it's not a phrase that's used these days.
A 'banger' firework is one that is lit, fizzes for a few seconds and then explodes 'BANG'. We also play Ice Hockey. We have American muffins in the UK and yes we would call them cakes as they are so sweet, The so-called "English Muffin" is a traditional food (a style of bread) made for many years, so the proper name is simply a 'muffin', the US version is just a type of cupcake and of course for American tastes it has to bereally sweet. The real muffin recipe was first written in a recipe book in 1747 but had been baked by housewives for much longer than that, they were sold warm and buttered as street food by 'muffin men'. Well before the US Constitution was adopted in 1789. We do have American Muffins and very nice they are occasionally.
Interestingly, Muffin' also has a darker meaning and was used to describe a certain female part of the anatomy which resides between the legs. We also had a children's puppet programme on TV in the 1950s and 60s concerning a Mule called Muffin, as we grew older the joke became "Muffin the Mule is not illegal" obviously referring to it's darker meaning.
I've been taught by my British grandmother and British chefs that banger was slang for pork sausage as in bangers and mash
As a Film Buff/Nerd? "Carry On --------" is a very long series of often crass film comedies starting with "Carry On Sergeant" (late 40s early 50s? ) and continuing into the 70s (with a later revival)
Can confirm as a uk person we call English muffins, English muffins, or breakfast muffins - and we call those cupcake type things, just muffins
Quite often you just need to listen to the video and your questions are usually answered.
The thing that most annoys me is that he didn’t cover biscuit (and gravy despite the 2 NOT going together), because there is a big difference between what Americans think a biscuit (and what gravy is) and what a biscuit (and what gravy) actually are
Also best example of something being homely I can think of is a good pub (in England, haven’t been to America so don’t know the equivalent there if they are there at all)
You realise Americans have beef gravy too right?👀💀
Gravy there is still a general thing, like we have chicken gravy, beef gravy, they do too, they just also have white gravy, which is basically bechamel sauce with pork fat 🤮
What he showed us, I would call a muffin, as do most supermarkets. Never seen them referred to as American muffins. The other type, I don't eat. Cupcake is American, they were always fairy cakes when I was a kid. If the top was cut off, split and stuck in butter icing on the top, it was a butterfly cake/ UK for years only had icing or butter icing, we never had frosting, that is also American.
I've never heard it called an American muffin - just a muffin. You chose which kind of muffin you want - one of those - or one of those - both called muffins!
He knows. America has had the mcmuffin for over 50 years, that's not a sweet muffin. He just does this because it's guaranteed to get replies, thus upping his view count. It's all about the 💲
@@pjdunnit6753 I'd forgotten about the McMuffin. Perhaps he had too. At least your comment has added to his $!!!
We also have a whole series of comedy films in Britain that are collectively known as "Carry On films," because all of their titles begin with the words, carry on...! For example, Carry on Nurse, Carry on Teacher, Carry on Camping, etc. They are all stuffed with innuendo and double-entendres, and feature exaggerated stereotypes of camp men and really big, dominant women - not to mention a young Barbara Windsor's bust...! Most of the actors are now dead, but were very popular indeed and often featured in TV sit-coms from the 1960s and 70s.
Sorry, I've only just seen this video. I normally watch them as they come out.
"Keep Clam and Carry on" was a war time poster encouraging people to do exactly what it it said on the poster. It doesn't help anyone if you panic all the time.
There was a series of crude but funny and popular films in the UK in the 70's called Carry on... Whatever. "Carry on Cleo", (about Anthony and Cleopatra), "Carry on screaming", etc. "Carry on camping". They were all separate films, but usually had many of the same actors in each of them. They were known for their crude and basic humour and double entendres.
The expression "Carry on" can be used to describe an affair, but it's quite old fashioned and no one uses it anymore.
Goldfish, bangers and mash isn’t new to you.
Hilarious...not
Boring and rude.
@@margaretnicol3423 userkq5 is a serial troll (At least 5 nasty pointless comments on this vid) who is cross because Tyler ignores him ,, I think he is in love with Tyler because only unrequited love turns someone into that much of a twat,
Nor are English muffins.
@@margaretnicol3423It would be rude if Tyler had ever engaged with his comments, also, what's rude about pointing out he's learnt these terms at least 20 times already?. Not the commentors fault your memory sucks as much as Tyler's
Yes the savoury flat muffin is called an English muffin, but the sweet version with choc chips or blueberries is also called a muffin
Hockey. What you called "Field Hockey", Great Britain was Olympic mens Gold Medalists in 1920 and 1988 and the Women were Gold Medalists in 2016.
"Ice Hockey" was pretty big in Britain between the Wars an Britain won Gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
My parents were both born around the end of WW1 and in their teens and early twenties, would go to watch "Wembley Lions" playing Ice Hockey, until WW2 came along! The league collapsed in 1960.
"Carry On" is also known in the UK s the name of a 1960s series of comedy films, which were pretty much to the UK what the Three Stooges movies were to the US. PS - were you deliberately wearing the same shirt as the guy on the video? US-style muffins are called cupcakes in the UK, and "English muffins" are called muffins in England. Scottish (and New Zealand) pikelets are also similar to "English" muffins.
Keep calm and carry on was actually never used I the war, because the government decided it was too condescending.
Which is why it was fine to bring back for the modern, moronic sheep
We don’t call them American muffins. We call them cupcakes even if they’re not iced.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s calling them buns and if iced, fairy cakes!
cupcake was an Americanism when I first heard it on the Simpsons in the early 1990s, fairy cakes were the closest we had, even if they were smaller. When they introduced American sized cakes for fatties they were called American muffins on the labels.
Interesting so maybe it’s a regional difference. I live close to London and I’ve always called them American muffin or blueberry/chocolate muffin. I bake and it’s a completely different recipe. Muffins are denser as they have a higher ratio of flour and normally no icing. A cupcake is sweeter and much closer in texture to our fairy cake (but much larger!) they are also normally iced with way too much buttercream frosting!
Hmmm - I'd never call them cupcakes; I'd call them muffins - but would say American muffin if I wanted/needed to differentiate from a proper muffin.
Bangers and mash - a favourite with many Brits. My kids love it. We have it once a week. You can have the sausages lying next to the mash on the plate, in an orderly fashion, or you can have a big heap of mash in the middle of your plate with the bangers poking out of it in all directions, like in the kids comic book The Beano.
Noone under 70 says "young and hip" anymore
Bangers and mash is amazing.
In terms of fireworks, if you've seen firecrackers, bangers are one of those tubes containing the powder in isolation.
Yes muffins exist in the UK, they're a bit more bready than cakes. Unfrosted cupcakes are often called 'fairy cakes'. We do accept that if someone says "chocolate chip muffin" they mean the American variety.
Frosting is an Americanism, I would call the thing you put on top of a cake icing, never frosting
@@Spiklething I am aware, but I was using the term because I didn't want to risk going down a rabbit hole and Tyler uses the term in the video so it was fresh in my mind.
I’m shocked that you used the word “epiphany” - and that you used it correctly.
This guy has a bad crush on Tyler and is angry he won't respond, are you in love , unrequited love hurts eh mate
We have it here in our British Pubs….I rotate from Bangers @nd Mash or the Fish and Chips….YUM 🇨🇦
What you would call a muffin, we call it a bun.
The Muffins you were showing at first, we call American Muffins, and they are absolutely like cakes. What you might call cup cakes, or we would call fairy cakes. English Muffins are round and made from bread. Nice toasted with butter marmite.
17:51 we used to call “American muffins” cupcakes, but the popularity of brands like Starbucks and similar who brought the bigger, more over the top American style over here has led to muffin being used just about as much - but we still also have cupcakes which are the more sensible sized little cakes. So we have both and could point to things and call them different names depending on size / style etc. So now it’s Americans who lack a word for “cupcakes”
Cupcake is an American word... We use it here to mean a larger cake, a smaller one would be called a "fairy cake"
@@robyntheslytherin interesting - Fairy cake to me is specifically a cup cake that has had the top cut off, filled with butter icing, then the top cut in half and put back to form two “wings”, making it a fairy cake. :)
A bit funny that I as a non native English speaker knew almost all of this
I thought " carry on " was another way of saying messing with or joking about.
'I'm only *carrying on* with you'
Tyler..I really like you, BUT I grew up in the US and lived there for most of my life before I decided retire to my birth country of Canada. Igrewupon the East Coast,and English muffns are VERY COMMON here.
We have in recent years imported Muffins to the uk but they are just Muffins, you look at them and immediately know that one is not the other (as long as you are not shopping on line !)
This guy from the North of England has many many posts about how different the US and UK are I believe he often loses the plot in the process. Carry on in UK can mean bags you bringing with you into the Cabin. Hand Luggage and Carry on are a bit dated it should be called wheel on. Carry on as per the poster means continue and is a bit archaic. Carry on and carrying on can also mean someone making a fuss over nothing or doing things that are not needed to do the task at hand. What is all that carry on in the street? They are arguing over which car caused the accident. She has been carrying on with a married man in secret.
I think the origin of the different words and phrases is that the people who took the language across were illiterate. I couldn’t find any papers on it though and just one article saying this.
Words like fawcett, diaper and drapes are English words that were in use when the Pilgrim Fathers settled in America and their language developed differently there than it did in the UK. British English has been subject to many different influences in the last 500 years or so than the US so words still in use in the US have gone out of use here in the UK.
When I was a kid in postwar Britain we didn't have what Tyler calls a muffin. We had small bitesize cakes called buns or fairy cakes. The 'wrapping paper' is a bun case. I don't think I saw an American muffin or cupcake in the UK until about 25 years ago.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 yeah, plus with how much influence on the media America has has during and since WWII after it earned so much money selling weapons to Britain and Germany that the lines have blurred.
@@Lily_The_Pink972
*Faucet* (tap)
(Fawcett was Farah Fawcett Majors, the late actress from "Charlie's Angels")
In Scotland you can say " an on carry " when it's a carry on ( in the sense of some wild behaviour ).
Never heard that in my 48 years here.
@@scottneil1187 it would be " as on cairey " - parents and grandparents used it.
This video reminded me of the old 80s cartoon theme song for Bangers and Mash by Chas and Dave. Somehow I'd forgotten it for the past 3 decades.
We just call them muffins. Never heard them called American muffins
i'm Scottish, and where i'm from we'd call what you call a muffin, a bun.
Muffins as you know them exist in Britain. Don't know why it's on the list tbf.
Now be honest, have you heard Muffin the Mule complaining ?
The poster Keep care and Carry on,was a post which was printed but no used in WW2,It was to be posted if the Germans invaded.
I have never heard this term ,i agree a carry on, for plane,other than that, to me in 🏴, it means to keep going to carry on with life, get on with it ect...
Omg Tyler, just join Your channels few weeks ago. Now I like To see Your opinions "out of america" 👍from🇫🇮
Im from the UK born in 1992 and I call American muffins "muffins" and English muffins "English muffins" if someone said muffins in UK they would think of American muffins. Also never heard of carry on as meaning an affair. I think this is very outdated.
Stop saying "typical average American". The willingness to learn sets you above the typical average Americans
I'm British and live in Wales. The muffins you call muffins, we also call muffins. I never never heard of an American muffin or an English muffin, they are just muffins.
We have won Olympic Gold in Hockey a few times!
I think in my part of England in the last 20 years American style muffins have become common in supermarkets and are probably more popular and common than the bread type. I guess as a result of this, in my local supermarkets the american muffins are mostly labelled and referred to simply as muffins, while the original bread muffins are mostly labelled English muffins even if people often miss out the English when referring to them.
Why is it that when I hear "Bangers and Mash" I always immediately think " Ministroni" or "Macaroni"? 😁 Rhetorical question.
You DON'T " bring " on hand luggage onto a plane ! You "take" on luggage onto a plane .
We call it HAND LUGGAGE and you would never be allowed to have it UNDER your seat !
" Inernet " !? It has another letter T in there. INTERNET !! Use it !
" AIRPLANE" !? We say AEROPLANE.
What about " what a carry on!" Which means " what a kerfuffle/fiasco/nuisance" .
Bangers and mash with onion gravy. YUM YUM !
Who remembers Muffin the Mule ?
Americans take note ! MUFFINS and CRUMPETS are 2 different things !
Do Americans not have the McDonalds breakfast McMuffin sandwich meal. Sausage and Egg or Sausage and Bacon, served with a Hash Brown and a drink.
We don't say FROSTING. We say ICING.
We do have American type muffins in the UK. Usually chocolate chip or blueberry. They are bigger than cup cakes/fairy cakes.
Hand luggage absolutely can go under the seat, the one in front of you if it fits.
FFS Tyler, your muffins are cakes.
No, they do count as a bread. Albeit a sweet bread, but definitely bready.
@@pjdunnit6753 chemically they are a cake as they will go hard after a while, rather than soft, which a biscuit will do. This has been tested, argued and proven in a court of law.
@@ianroper2812 Who is going to argue whether it's a cake or a bread in a court of law? They are not partially or fully coated in chocolate, so are exempt from vat. If you feel the need to bs to win an 'arguement' then fine, you win 🙄
@@pjdunnit6753 great shame that you think I was arguing, I’m not, simply stating a fact, and by the way, Mcvities in the UK had this problem and were taken to court by HMRC. Mcvities won. Just stating facts my friend (my homework is done).
@@ianroper2812 Wasn't the mcvities case regarding whether a Jaffa cake was classed as a biscuit other than a cake, and it was argued that it was a cake therefore vat exempt? What case are you talking about?
English muffins are sold at McDonald's
Wait till you hear about "bubble and squeek'
Carry on = continue with what you are doing. A carry on is a funny happening.
Banger, sausage, because they sometimes pop & spit when frying, like a firework. A specific type of firework which just explodes with a bang. A clapped out old car.
Hocky in the UK is a field sport, without ice. Homely = a cosy, comfortable house.
An American 'muffin' is nothing like a genuine English muffin, but a like a large cup cake.
The American muffin is now common in the UK, but not as a breakfast food, more often as a snack, like other cakes. What Americans call 'frosting' is icing in the UK, & it may be hard or soft. On wedding & Christmas cakes it is usually hard, on some smaller items it is soft.
Carry on, can also be a command to, stop doing this and go about your normal business, such as 'Carry on sergeant', 'nothing to see here', used to disperse a crowd, 'OK you's lot, carry on about your business'
Gee the way you're talking about your version of how the English muffin got it's name sounds like how Canadian bacon got it's name
I guess Tyler has never had an Egg McMuffin at McDonalds??
Once again Tyler is incorrect when he speaks about "Americans." Judging from the amount of McDonalds Breakfasts that Americans consume, I would be willing to bet that the US consumes more "English muffins" than the UK.
Hi ,Tyler, I think you are so sweet. I played hockey too. Homely is a snuggle place
3:32 that's not a very common usage tbh. If you did use it that way, it's generally obvious from context and generally 'carrying on with' rather than just carry on. Carry-on in the plane luggage sense is just your hand luggage
Americans can't handle phrases and words being fluid and change based on context. Words have to mean one thing and one thing only to them or they get confused.
This guy is wrong. Bangers (which are now banned in the UK) are not called bangers in the states, they are call "Fire crackers"
You NEED to watch this video
" Why the US sucks at football" by Zealand
He explained the history of the sport in the US
In a pub you may hear someone complaining that someone left bangers and mash... that is a unflushed toilet. I will let your imagination see it.
If you're not going to believe what is said why do this video?
OMG got the lips zipped on this one, don't want to be banned
The yoy go again Tyler you've never heard of bangers and mash but you have heard of bangers and mash in a recent food video you the memory of a gold fish. Tyler seen it then deny all knowledge and repeat.
He isn't right 🙄🙄🙄😒😒😒
He Is teaching him wrong
Girls played hockey and netball boys played cricket and football when I was at school. Don't know any boys that ever played hockey. It's a girls game
As a Brit I’ve never heard carry on used to mean an affair. He’s also showing how out of touch he is with modern UK culture as usual, we use banger to mean a good song all the time, bangers and mash is accurate, banger for a car is a thing but it’s rare and I’ve never heard it used for fireworks. I call both food items muffins, I don’t specify English or American, if I had to I’d probably call the English one a toasted muffin but I’d never say American muffin.
Really? "He is carrying on with that girl from the corner shop" or something similar is very common. Maybe it's a regional thing.
@@davidjackson2580 possibly, I’ve only ever heard “cheating on”, “having an affair” or “being unfaithful”.
@@Sparx632 It might also be an age thing. I'm 65 and it may well be that newer expressions have taken over.
I'm 48, carry on meaning affair has always been a thing, you've obviously never had or used fireworks if you've never used a banger, it's a type of firework. What yanks Would call a firecracker, everyone had tons of them when I was a kid, you bought them by the box
I say 'carry on' to mean have an affair.
You must have British blood somewhere ....your humour reflects that ...Cause we are Bonkers ...welcome . Banger is a sausage ..yes...Look up ...Yes we have no Banannas ...cockney song ...I am London ..but I cannot even work it out ...does it mean we have them ..or we haven't ! Check out Chas n Dave music ...thats is real Cockney ...like where my family came from ...East End of London.
Hockey is either outdoor or indoor hockey and ice hockey here in uk or atleast scotland
Also, air hockey.
That is really really not true at all. I don't know a single groud hockey team but ice hockey is pretty popular, I mean the Belfast giants are sold out every time they play. If someone said hockey to me.99.999% of the time I'd think ice hockey. They're all not as old as Hurling though.
They have hockey teams in the Olympics international teams that's not on ice
It is always muffin ' time
it is british started in ww2 in britain
Words the US use differently to the rest of the English speaking world. There fixed it for you.
English muffins can be called a number of things in the U.K. depending on the region you live in. i've heard them called muffins, crumpets or pieclets.
A crumpit and a muffin are not the same.
Very enjoyable. Thanks Tyler.
To me a muffin is a big cup cake
That's a big fairycake, a muffin is different.
American muffins aren't called that in the UK, it's more likely to be called a plain cupcake or fairy cake cause it doesn't have frosting on top, so I don't know what Lawrence is talking about, I've never called them American muffins.
I call it a muffin, cupcakes have icing and tend to be sweeter and even if it is a blueberry/chocolate muffin if it doesn't have icing it is a muffin, not a cupcake and cupcakes are more like fairy cakes, muffins are denser
@@MsKaz1000 Most people don't, there is of course like yourself exceptions to that.
Muffins and cupcakes are totally different. Different recipe, taste, texture, look. I dont get all the confusion with other fellow brits. If you buy them the shop its normally labelled to help.
@@thedoobieshrew0244 wasn't confused was giving similar baked things that he might get. I don't buy them I make them myself, I don't appreciate the condescending message stating normally labelled to help as if I don't know. If you misunderstood my comment it's on you. Being condescending towards people won't be appreciated why don't you learn that.
i bet islam is the same word as islam in US
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