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A rebus () is a
puzzle
A puzzle is a game, Problem solving, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (Disentanglement puzzle, or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to arrive at th ...
device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n". It was a favourite form of
heraldic
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branc ...
expression used in the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
to denote surnames.
For example, in its basic form, three
salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...
(fish) are used to denote the surname "
Salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...
". A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop
Walter Lyhart (d. 1472) of Norwich, consisting of a
stag
Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer ...
(or
hart
Hart often refers to:
* Hart (deer)
Hart may also refer to:
Organizations
* Hart Racing Engines, a former Formula One engine manufacturer
* Hart Skis, US ski manufacturer
* Hart Stores, a Canadian chain of department stores
* Hart's Reptile Wo ...
) lying down in a conventional representation of water.
The composition alludes to the name, profession or personal characteristics of the bearer, and speaks to the beholder ''Non verbis, sed rebus'', which
Latin
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expression signifies "not by words but by things" (''res, rei'' (f), a thing, object, matter; ''rebus'' being
ablative
In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced ; sometimes abbreviated ) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses. T ...
plural).
Rebuses within heraldry
Rebuses are used extensively as a form of heraldic expression as a hint to the name of the bearer; they are not synonymous with
canting arms
Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.
French heralds used the term (), as they would sound out the name of the armiger. Many armorial allus ...
. A man might have a rebus as a personal identification device entirely separate from his armorials, canting or otherwise. For example,
Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541) bore as arms: ''Ermine, on a chief azure five
bezant
In the Middle Ages, the term bezant (Old French ''besant'', from Latin ''bizantius aureus'') was used in Western Europe to describe several gold coins of the east, all derived ultimately from the Roman ''solidus''. The word itself comes from th ...
s'', whilst his rebus, displayed many times in terracotta plaques on the walls of his mansion
Sutton Place, Surrey
Sutton Place, north-east of Guildford in Surrey, is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house built c. 1525 by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), courtier of Henry VIII. It is of great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of ...
, was a "tun" or barrel, used to designate the last syllable of his surname.
An example of canting arms proper are those of the
Borough of Congleton in Cheshire consisting of a
conger
''Conger'' ( ) is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to 2 m (6 ft) or more in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during t ...
eel, a lion (in Latin, ''leo'') and a tun (barrel). This word sequence "conger-leo-tun" enunciates the town's name.
Similarly, the coat of arms of
St. Ignatius Loyola contains wolves (in Spanish, ''lobo'') and a kettle (''olla''), said by some (probably incorrectly) to be a rebus for "Loyola". The arms of
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was List of British royal consorts, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of Ki ...
feature
bows and lions.
Modern rebuses, word plays
![Top Secret Rebus Puzzle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Top_Secret_Rebus_Puzzle.png)
A modern example of the rebus used as a form of
word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of word play include puns, phonet ...
is:
:H +
![Earcov](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Earcov.JPG)
= ''Hear'', or ''Here''.
By extension, it also uses the positioning of words or parts of words in relation to each other to convey a hidden meaning, for example:
:p walk ark'': walk in the park.
A rebus made up solely of letters (such as "CU" for "See you") is known as a
gramogram A gramogram, grammagram, or letteral word is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "see you". They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations.
They are sometimes used as ...
, grammagram, or letteral word. This concept is sometimes extended to include numbers (as in "Q8" for "
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
", or "8" for "ate").
Rebuses are sometimes used in
crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answ ...
puzzles, with multiple letters or a symbol fitting into a single square.
Pictograms
The term ''rebus'' also refers to the use of a
pictogram
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is a graphic symbol that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and ...
to represent a syllabic sound. This adapts pictograms into
phonograms. A precursor to the development of the alphabet, this process represents one of the most important developments of writing. Fully developed hieroglyphs read in rebus fashion were in use at
Abydos in Egypt as early as 3400 BCE. In Mesopotamia, the principle was first employed on
Proto-Cuneiform
The Proto-Cuneiform script was used in Mesopotamia from roughly 3300 BC to 2900 BC. It arose from the token based system used in the region for the preceding millennia and was replaced by the development of early Cuneiform script in the Early Dy ...
tablets, beginning in the
Jemdet Nasr period
The Jemdet Nasr Period is an archaeological culture in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). It is generally dated from 3100 to 2900 BC. It is named after the type site Tell Jemdet Nasr, where the assemblage typical for this period was first r ...
(c. 3100–2900 BC).
The writing of correspondence in rebus form became popular in the 18th century and continued into the 19th century.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
wrote the children he befriended picture-puzzle rebus letters, nonsense letters, and
looking-glass letters, which had to be held in front of a mirror to be read. Rebus letters served either as a sort of
code
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or simply as a
pastime
A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time. Hobbies include collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing oth ...
.
Rebus principle
![Ramesses II as child](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ramesses_II_as_child.jpg)
In
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
, the rebus principle is the use of existing symbols, such as pictograms, purely for their sounds regardless of their meaning, to represent new words. Many ancient writing systems used what we now term 'the rebus principle' to represent abstract words, which otherwise would be hard to represent with pictograms. An example that illustrates the Rebus principle is the representation of the sentence "I can see you" by using the pictographs of "eye—can—sea—ewe".
Some linguists believe that the Chinese developed their writing system according to the rebus principle, and Egyptian hieroglyphs sometimes used a similar system. A famous rebus statue of
Ramses II
Ramesses II ( egy, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded as t ...
uses three hieroglyphs to compose his name:
Horus
Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the P ...
(as
Ra), for ''Ra''; the child, ''mes''; and the sedge plant (stalk held in left hand), ''su''; the name Ra-mes-su is then formed.
Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...
posited that the rebus was the basis for uncovering the latent content of the
dream
A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...
. He wrote, "A dream is a picture puzzle of this sort and our predecessors in the
field of dream interpretation have made the mistake of treating the rebus as a pictorial composition: and as such it has seemed to them
nonsensical and worthless."
Use in game shows
Canada
* 1980s children's game show ''
Kidstreet
''Kidstreet'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian children's game show that aired from 1987 to 1992 and was hosted by Kevin Frank, with Kathy Morse as the announcer (one of the rare occasions of a woman holding this position; the pair also worked ...
'' featured a rebus
during the bonus round (or "final lap").
United Kingdom
* ''
Catchphrase
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'' is a long-running game show which required contestants to decipher a rebus. The show began as a short-lived
American game show hosted by
Art James
Art James (born Arthur Simeonovich Efimchick; October 15, 1929 – March 28, 2004) was an American game-show host, best known for shows such as ''The Who, What, or Where Game'', ''It's Academic''. and ''Pay Cards!'' He was also the announcer a ...
before being seen in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2004 and returning in 2013. There was also an
Australian version of the show hosted by
John Burgess.
* In 1998, Granada TV produced ''
Waffle
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'', a single word rebus puzzle show that was hosted by Nick Weir, and included premium telephone line viewer participation.
United States
* Rebuses were central to the television game show ''
Concentration
In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: '' mass concentration'', ''molar concentration'', ''number concentration'', an ...
.'' Contestants had to solve a rebus, usually partially concealed behind any of thirty numbered "squares", to win a game. An updated version, known as ''Classic Concentration,'' shrank the board to twenty-five squares. There were also British and Australian versions of the game.
* The
HBO
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children's game series ''
Crashbox
''Crashbox'' is an educational children's television series co-created by Eamon Harrington and John Watkin for HBO Family that ran from 1999 to 2000 in the United States. It was HBO's second attempt (their first being ''Braingames'' 15 years ea ...
'' features three rebus puzzles in the game segment "Ten Seconds."
* A short-lived ABC game show from 1965 known as ''The Rebus Game'' also involved contestants creating rebuses to communicate an answer.
India
* ''
Dadagiri Unlimited
''Dadagiri Unlimited'' is an Indian Bengali language quiz show. The programme has been airing on Zee Bangla since 2009. Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the India national cricket team and the current president of the Board of Control for ...
'' is a game show in which some rebus puzzles are used in the
googly round. The show is broadcast by
Zee Bangla
Zee Bangla is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel broadcasting in the Bengali language. It is owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is the first Bengali-language satellite television channel in India, officially com ...
and hosted by the former Indian cricketer
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali), is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain w ...
.
Historical examples
![Owl-dom rebus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Owl-dom_rebus.png)
* It is reported that when
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
was the guest of
Frederick the Great
Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Sil ...
at
Sanssouci Palace
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, they exchanged puzzle notes. Frederick sent over a page with two picture blocks on it: two hands below the letter P, and then the number 100 below a picture of a handsaw, all followed by a question mark. Voltaire replied with: Ga!
:Both messages were rebuses in the French language: ''deux mains sous Pé à cent sous scie?'' "two hands under 'p' at
nehundred under saw" = ''demain souper à Sanssouci?'' "supper tomorrow at Sanssouci?"); reply: ''Gé grand, A petit!'' "big 'G', small 'a'!" (= ''j'ai grand appétit!'' "I am very hungry!").
* The early 16th-century
Bishop of Exeter
The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell. ,
Hugh Oldham
Hugh Oldham ( – 25 June 1519) was an English cleric who was Bishop of Exeter (1505–19) and a notable patron of education as a founder and patron of Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Born in Lancashire to a fami ...
, adopted the owl as his personal device. It bore a scroll in its beak bearing the letters D.O.M., forming a rebus based on his surname, which would probably have been pronounced at the time as ''owl-dom''.
* The 19th-century French sculptor
Jean-Pierre Dantan would place rebuses on the
socles of his caricature busts to identify the subject. For example,
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
was an axe (''hache'' in French, which sounds like the French pronunciation of "H") + UG + crossed bones (''os'', sounding like "O").
Hector Berlioz
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
was represented by the letters BER low on the socle, with a bed (''lit'', for "li") comparatively high on the socle (to mean "''haut''", the French for high, pronounced with a silent "h" and "t" and so sounding like "O").
* Rebus Bibles such as ''
A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible
''A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible'' is an early American children's book. Published in by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1788, it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). It is not to be confused with a si ...
'' were popular in the late 18th century for teaching Bible-reading to children.
*
Franciscans
, image = FrancescoCoA PioM.svg
, image_size = 200px
, caption = A cross, Christ's arm and Saint Francis's arm, a universal symbol of the Franciscans
, abbreviation = OFM
, predecessor =
, ...
interacting with
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...
-speaking groups found that the Cholultecans used rebus principles to record information in Latin. The Cholultecans learned the Pater Noster or Lord's Prayer with the aid of drawing pictures of a ''pantli'' (flag or banner) to represent ''pater'' and a picture of a prickly pear, ''nochtli,'' for ''noster''. This practice was seen as a strength of the people's pictograhic literacy.
Japan
![Kuni rebus 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Kuni_rebus_2.jpg)
In Japan, the rebus known as was immensely popular during the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
. A piece by
ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
artist
Kunisada was "Actor Puzzles" (''Yakusha hanjimono'') that featured rebuses.
Today the most often seen of these symbols is a picture of a sickle, a circle, and the letter , read as , interpreted as , the old-fashioned form of . This is known as the , and dates to circa 1700, being used in kabuki since circa 1815.
Kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily-stylised performances, the often-glamorous costumes worn by performers, and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.
Kabuki is thought to ...
actors would wear ''yukata'' and other clothing whose pictorial design, in rebus, represented their
Yagō
, literally meaning "house name", is a term applied in traditional Japanese culture to names passed down within a guild, studio, or other circumstance other than blood relations. The term is synonymous with and . The term most often refers to the ...
"guild names", and would distribute
tenugui
A , literally "hand-wiper", is a thin Japanese hand towel made from cotton. Typically, are about in size, plain woven, and almost always dyed with some pattern. Usually the long sides are finished with a selvage, and the short sides are just ...
cloth with their rebused names as well. The practice was not restricted to the acting profession and was undertaken by townsfolk of various walks of life. There were also pictorial calendars called
egoyomi that represented the
Japanese calendar
Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations stating the year of the reign of the current Emperor. The written form starts with t ...
in rebus so it could be "read" by the illiterate.
Today a number of abstract examples following certain conventions are occasionally used for names, primarily for corporate
logo
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s or product logos and incorporating some characters of the name, as in a
monogram
A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series o ...
; see
Japanese rebus monogram
A Japanese rebus monogram is a monogram in a particular style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visual pun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos.
These symbols are particularly com ...
. The most familiar example globally is the logo for
Yamasa
Yamasa Corporation (ヤマサ醤油株式会社 ''Yamasa Shōyu Kabushikigaisha'') is a Japanese corporation founded in 1645 whose primary field of business is the manufacturing of soy sauce and various seasonings. It was incorporated in November ...
soy sauce, which is a ∧ with a サ under it. This is read as ''Yama'', for (symbolized by the ∧) + .
Rebus puzzles on US beers
*
Lone Star has rebus puzzles under the
crown caps of its bottled beer, as do
National Bohemian
National Bohemian Beer, colloquially Natty Boh, is an American lager originating from Baltimore, Maryland. It was first brewed in 1885 by the National Brewing Company, but was eventually purchased by Pabst Brewing Company.
Nearly 90 percent of ...
,
Lucky Lager
Lucky Lager is an American lager with U.S. brewing and distribution rights held by the Pabst Brewing Company. Originally launched in 1934 by the San Francisco-based General Brewing Company, Lucky Lager grew to be one of the prominent beers of ...
,
Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays '' Henry IV, Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', w ...
,
Olympia
The name Olympia may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
* ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlet ...
,
Rainier,
Haffenreffer,
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
,
Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carb ...
, Regal,
Ballantine,
Mickey's
Mickey's is a brand of malt liquor made by the Miller Brewing Company. It has a 5.6% ABV.
The brand was created by Sterling Brewery in Evansville, Indiana, which brewed it from 1962 through 1972. It is known for its bright green barrel-shaped, ...
,
Lionshead, and Texas Pride during the 1970s and the 1980s. These puzzle caps are also called "crown ticklers".
Narragansett Beer
The Narragansett Brewing Company ( ) is an American brewery founded in Cranston, Rhode Island in 1890. Founders included John H. Fehlberg, Augustus F. Borchandt, Herman G. Possner, George M. Gerhard, Constand A. Moeller, and Jacob Wirth.
Narrag ...
uses rebus puzzles on their bottle caps, and bar coasters.
See also
*
Dingbat
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, (similar to box-drawing characters) or a ...
, another word for rebus, derived from the
game of the same name
*
Emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversat ...
*
Verbal arithmetic
Verbal arithmetic, also known as alphametics, cryptarithmetic, cryptarithm or word addition, is a type of mathematical game consisting of a mathematical equation among unknown numbers, whose digits are represented by letters of the alphabet. The ...
*
Visual pun
A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus.
Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as '' Lost Consonants'' or ''The Far ...
References
External links
How to solve Rebus puzzles
* An example of usin
characters to write English.
* The online music revie
La Foliaoffer
* Online rebus generators, automatically convert any text into a rebus:
*
festisite.com*
rebus.clubHigh quality generator due to the use of a special purpose
Edit distance
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algorithm.
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rebus1.com
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