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Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language such as Jago, Trelawney or Enys. Others have strong roots
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Cornish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abbie Cornish (born 1982), Australian actress Albert J. Cornish (1856–1920), Justice of
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Celtic language native to Cornwall
Cornish (Kernewek or Kernowek [kəɾˈnuːək]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Cornish people and their homeland, Cornwall
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Ethnic diaspora
The Cornish diaspora (Cornish: Keskar kernewek) consists of Cornish people and their descendants who emigrated from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The diaspora
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Surname found in Scotland or with a historical connection to Scotland
Scottish surnames are surnames found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country. The earliest surnames found in Scotland
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English idiom about people from Cornwall
Many Cornish surnames and place names still retain these words as prefixes, such as the surname Trelawny and the village Polzeath. Tre in the Cornish language
Tre,_Pol_and_Pen
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A handbook of Cornish surnames "Cornish surnames E". Freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2013-07-15. "Campbell Surname Meaning and Distribution"
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Americans of Cornish birth or descent
Cornish Americans (Cornish: Amerikanyon gernewek) are Americans who describe themselves as having Cornish ancestry, an ethnic group of Brittonic Celts
Cornish_Americans
Australians of Cornish heritage
significant Cornish ancestry. Cornish surnames are more heavily concentrated in South Australia where six of the top ten surnames are Cornish. Internationally
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below national average. Traditional Cornish surnames tend to start with 'Tre', 'Pol' or 'Pen'. To quote a Cornish saying "By the Tre, Pol and Pen, you
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Couch is a surname. It has two different origins. It is a Cornish name thought to have derived from Cornish "cough" (red) and to have been a nickname for
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In Cornwall, the surnames Cock and Couch (pronounced 'cooch') also derive from Cornish cogh "red, scarlet". As a Cornish surname, Cock can also derive
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fixed surnames, although the use of patronymic names continued up until the early 19th century in some rural areas. In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became
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County, Minnesota Cornish Township, Sibley County, Minnesota Cornish (surname) Cornish Aromatic, apple cultivar Cornish chicken Cornish chough (Pyrrhocorax
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Landeryou is a surname of Cornish origin and is believed to mean "enclosure of oak trees", deriving from a combination of the Cornish elements lann (meaning
Landeryou
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Celtic Welsh, or Cornish surname. It is based on the English version of the parent's name ending in -S. In 1881 people with this surname were primarily
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Snell is a Cornish surname. Annette Snell (1945–1977), American R&B singer Belinda Snell (born 1981), Australian basketball player Benny Snell (born 1998)
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Nance is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albinus Nance (1848–1911), American 4th governor of Nebraska Eric Nance (1960–2005)
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Names Companion. Oxford University Press. p. 621. ISBN 0198605617 "Cornish Surnames - extensive A-Z list". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on
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English surname. As a Chinese surname, Ching may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed
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politician Cornish surnames Shire "Last name: Brokenshire". www.surnamedb.com. Retrieved 21 Aug 2017. This page lists people with the surname Brokenshire
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Pendarves is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Pendarves, Cornish politician John Pendarves, Cornish Puritan controversialist
Pendarves
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(disambiguation) "Cornish surnames P". "Pritchard Surname Meaning". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014 This page lists people with the surname Pritchard
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Cornish given name and surname which means "Easter children" from the Cornish language Pask, cognate of Latin Pascha ("Easter"). Pascoe is a Cornish pet
Pascoe
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Bodrugan is a Cornish surname and placename. It may refer to: Henry Bodrugan (died 1308), Cornish landowner, knight and politician Nicholas Bodrugan (born
Bodrugan
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Treffry is a Cornish surname. The first record of the name Treffry is found in Cornwall, where they lived at Treffry near Lanhydrock. A Roger Treffry
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is a Cornish surname, and may refer to: Dirk Kempthorne (1951–2026), American politician John Kempthorne (Royal Navy officer) (1620–1679), Cornish admiral
Kempthorne
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Trevithick (/trəˈvɪθɪk/ trə-VITH-ik) is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francis Trevithick (1812–1877), British locomotive
Trevithick
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Penix is a Cornish-language family name (Cornish surnames) originating in Cornwall. In medieval times, people were known by their given names, but as the
Penix
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Treloar is a Cornish surname, now most common in Australia and North America. Treloar is a habitational surname originating from Wendron, Cornwall, England
Treloar
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Hosking is a surname of Cornish origin. In Cornwall there are also the variant forms Hosken, Hoskin and Hoskins. Unlike many Cornish surnames which are associated
Hosking
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et al. (2002) The Oxford Surnames Companion. Oxford U. P.; p. 620 Craig Weatherhill (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co
Tredinnick
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diminutives of given names". White, George Pawley. A Handbook of Cornish Surnames: Three Hundred Cornish Christian Names. Dyllansow Truran, 1981. ISBN 0-907566-94-4
José
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Bossence is a surname of Cornish origin. It is an anglicized variant of the original Cornish "bos" (archaic "bod") meaning "dwelling" and "sans" meaning
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Rosevear is a British (Cornish) surname. Rosevear and Roseveare are derived from either of two places so called in Cornwall (one is in Mawgan in Meneage
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Tyack or Tyacke is a Cornish surname. It is an ancient surname and the Tyacks were landowners at an early period. It is thought to be derived from a Celtic
Tyack
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Carew is a Welsh and Cornish habitation-type surname; it has also been used as a synonym for the Irish patronymic Ó Corráin. Carey can be a variant. The
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Tregenza is a Cornish surname. It derives from Tregenza in the parish of Creed; Tregenza is formed from the elements "tre" (homestead) and "kensyth" (meaning
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dictionary. Trevorrow is a Cornish surname originating in the Cornish language.[citation needed] Notable people with the surname include: Colin Trevorrow
Trevorrow
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Phillips, released in 1978 on the album Private Parts & Pieces Cornish surnames Tregenza (surname) Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763–1838), English cleric Canton
Tregenna
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English and Cornish surname. It can be either a variant of Roda or Rhoda, or a West Cornwall variant of Rodd. Notable people with the surname include: Adrian
Rodda
English lawyer, philologist and antiquary (1820–1905)
of Essex (1870) Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, the Etymology of Cornish Surnames (1870) The Peoples of Transylvania (1870) Anthropologia; in which are
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Kemmyn List of Cornish dialect words Emmet (Cornish) Penna (surname) Cornish surnames Treffry Baragwanath Agan Tavas Akademi Kernewek Cornish Language Council
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Human settlement in England
destroyed to make way for a nearby highway roundabout. Retallack is also a Cornish surname. The name can be traced back to the location near St Columb. John Retallack
Retallack
Human settlement in England
Bolitho (/bəˈlaɪθoʊ/ bə-LY-thoh, Cornish: Bosleythow) is a village in west Cornwall, and a Cornish surname. The Bolitho Family own large estates in west
Bolitho,_Cornwall
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Cornwall portal China portal Woon is a surname with various origins. It is a word in the old Cornish language, meaning 'downlander', and remains a common
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Handbook of Cornish Surnames (Third ed.). Mount Hawke: Dyllansow Truran. p. 11. ISBN 1850221278. This page lists people with the surname Endean. If an
Endean
derivations from Cumbric, Cornish or Breton in some cases. Beyond the acquisition of common nouns, there are numerous English toponyms, surnames, personal names
List of English words of Welsh origin
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Area of Livermore, California, United States
535 feet (163 m). Trevarno is Cornish and means "farm/settlement of Varno". For more information, see Cornish surnames. Officials of Coast Manufacturing
Trevarno, Livermore, California
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Cathedral city in Cornwall, England
Stephen (1870). Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: or, the Etymology of Cornish Surnames. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 150. ISBN 9781165533398
Truro
by Richard Carew in his Survey of Cornwall, published in 1602. Many Cornish surnames and place names still retain these words as prefixes. One famous version
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Angove is a Cornish surname. This surname originates from the Cornish language, a Celtic language, and is common in Cornwall. The name is a compound of
Angove
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Trebilcock is a Cornish surname, pronounced "tra-BILL-co". It derives from Trebilcock in the parish of Roche; Trebilcock is formed from the elements "tre"
Trebilcock
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Penrose is a Cornish-language surname. The surname Penrose is derived from one of the places called Penrose in England and Wales: these are found in ten
Penrose_(surname)
Modifying personal names for English
Innis, Innes, and Guinness. As with Gaelic and Germanic surnames, Welsh surnames and Cornish surnames had originally been mostly patronymic, though others
Anglicisation_of_names
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Beaglehole or Beauglehole [pronunciation?] is a Cornish surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: Alexander Clifford Beauglehole
Beaglehole
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Goldsworthy is a Cornish name, from the Cornish language "gol-erewy", meaning field of feast. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Adrian Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy_(name)
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Trefethen is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Trefethen, British computer scientist, former wife of Lloyd N. Florence Newman
Trefethen
American lawyer and political activist
May 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames. Robert D. Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and
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Celtic language spoken in France
from Cornish. Maen hir can be directly translated from Welsh as "long stone" (which is exactly what a menhir or maen hir is). The Cornish surnames Mennear
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Tremayne is a Cornish language surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Tremayne (1827–1905), Crimean War soldier and Cornish MP Brycen Tremayne
Tremayne
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Trethowan is a Cornish surname, found both in Cornwall and amongst members of the Cornish diaspora. People with the name include: Anthony Trethowan (1945–2015)
Trethowan
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William H. Hammett (died 1861), U.S. Representative from Mississippi Cornish surnames Curtin–Hammett principle ESP Kirk Hammett Hammett (film), 1982 film
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Paynter is a surname. It can either be of Cornish origin, meaning "the head/end of the land" (penn an tir) from the Cornish language, or it can be of English-language
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from Welsh, Cornish or Breton. The Welsh gof and the Breton goff means "smith" (cognate with Irish gobha). The English-originating surname is common in
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a numeric designation (e.g., "II"). Jenkins is a surname variant of Jenkin commonly seen in Cornish and in English (mainly Devon) ancestry, also meaning
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Human settlement in England
Cornwall, England. There is also a Cornish surname Penhallurick (with variants Penhalurick, &c.); it is well recorded in Cornish parish registers from the late
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masculine name, the variant Vyvyan has sometimes been used, based on the Cornish surname itself derived from the given name. The intermediary form Vyvian is
Vivian_(personal_name)
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Tremaine is a Cornish language name, though most often a surname. Emily Hall Tremaine, art director and collector F. Orlin Tremaine, science fiction editor
Tremaine
College football award
The Jon Cornish Trophy is an award given annually to the top Canadian player in NCAA football. The award is named after Canadian Football Hall of Famer
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Kellie, in Fife. The surname can also be derived from a place name in England: Kelly, in Devon. This place name is derived from the Cornish celli, meaning "wood"
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Bolitho is a surname of Cornish origin, derived from Bolitho in west Cornwall. Notable people with the surname include: Bob Bolitho (born 1952), Canadian
Bolitho_(surname)
sometimes spelled Tresize or Trezise, is a surname of Cornish origin. The name could originate from any of several Cornish farms or hamlets such as Trezise in
Trezise
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Grose is a surname of two possible origins. Cornish origin: a toponymic surname for a person who lived near a stone cross, from Cornish "crows" or "crous"
Grose_(surname)
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"Common surnames". News in Depth. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2008. Cottle, Basil (1967). Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore
Smith_(surname)
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(1929–2011), Australian-born British model and magazine editor Joseph Hocking, Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister Silas Hocking, Methodist
Hocking_(surname)
Legendary Cornish nobleman
The Etymology of Cornish Surnames. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 28. Bannister, John (1869). A Glossary of Cornish Names. Williams &
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Nancarrow (or Nancherrow) is a Cornish surname meaning the "valley of the deer". Notable people with the surname include: Alexandra Nancarrow (born 1993)
Nancarrow
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charge for surnames containing ros and in mottoes can be a cant in English (rose) or Cornish (rosen, Cornish for rose). Cleather (Cornish - kledha, a
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Boscawen is a surname of Cornish origin, derived from Boscawen-Un. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Boscawen (1862–1939), Cornish gardener,
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Kernick is a surname of Cornish origin. notable people with this surname include: Dudley Kernick (1921–2019), English footballer Olivia Kernick (born
Kernick_(surname)
Valley in North Yorkshire, England
Retrieved 1 February 2023. Pawley White, Gunwyn (1972). A Handbook of Cornish Surnames. G. PAWLEY WHITE, Camborne. Reaney, P. H. (1969). The Origin of English
Rosedale,_North_Yorkshire
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Trevelyan, or its variant Trevillian, is a Welsh and Cornish name derived from a place-name which originally meant "farmstead 'trev' or Tref (town in
Trevelyan
American writer
Team (Digital - June 13, 2007) - HTML White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames. Author's website Award site for International Reading Association
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Chynoweth is a name of Cornish origin meaning "new house" (chi nowydh) in the Cornish language. It may refer to: Chynoweth, Cornwall, a village in St Hilary
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Waddleton is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ethan Waddleton (born 1996), English rugby union player Tracey Waddleton (born
Waddleton
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Curgenven is a Cornish surname; variant forms of it are Cargenven and Corgenvin. There are records of persons with this name in Cornwall and Devon parish
Curgenven
Capital and largest city of Hidalgo, Mexico
records of Cornish employees, especially between 1824 and 1849. The Cornish immigrants married into Mexican families, and even today Cornish surnames are not
Pachuca
1704–1719, edited by June Palmer, Exeter, Institute of Cornish Studies, 1997 (Series: Sources of Cornish History, Volume 4) ISBN 0-903686-76-7 with extensive
Enys family of Enys in Cornwall
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1976), American wrestler and coach Teague Rook, Australian actor Teague (surname) Teague, Texas, a city in Freestone County, Texas, United States Teague
Teague
Series of historical novels by Alexander Kent
battle of the entire American Revolution. The name Bolitho is a common Cornish surname, but Reeman says that he borrowed the name Richard Bolitho from a real
The_Bolitho_novels
Cornish family
London, 2015, p.259, Baron Clinton, Collaterals Pascoe, W. H. (1979) A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; p. 104 Pevsner, N. (1969) Cornwall; 2nd
Trefusis_family
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tiger John Blight (1913–1995), Australian poet of Cornish ancestry John Thomas Blight (1835–1911), Cornish archaeological artist Malcolm Blight (born 1950)
Blight_(surname)
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Trevaskis is a Cornish surname. Notable people with that name include: John Trevaskis (1881–1963), Cornish rugby player Kennedy Trevaskis (1915–1990)
Trevaskis
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Hext is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alice Hext (1865–1939), Cornish philanthropist, gardener and magistrate Frances Margery Hext
Hext_(surname)
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and Synonyms of Surnames & Christian Names in Ireland', Dublin, 1901 Woulfe P., 'Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall' or 'Irish Names and Surnames', Dublin, 1923
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Carminow is an Anglo-Cornish surname, sometimes spelled Carminowe It may refer to: John Carminow or Carminowe (c. 1516 – 1592), MP Nicholas Carminow or
Carminow
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and commentator
12, 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2009. White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames. "Who Do You Think You Are? (Don Cherry)". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Retallack is a village in Cornwall, England. The Cornish surname Retallack comes from the three places named Retallack in Cornwall. Retallack may also
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Jeffery is a given name or a surname. As a surname, it is a Cornish variant of the more commonly spelled given name Jeffrey. It may refer to: Aaron Jeffery
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