Mark's home!
I bought a TV guide this week because I didn't try to buy a paper until late on Sunday and of course all the papers were gone because everyone bought one for the Oscars coverage and predictions etc. It felt weird to buy a TV guide.
Also, today I actually enjoyed driving to and from work. It was raining. In other parts of the county it was snowing. None of my students had heard of Sinatra's "Lady is a Tramp," but they did appreciate my explanation of the line "hate California, it's cold and it's damp." But I had to explain the word "tramp" and also the positive connotation of "lady" first.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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What a weird page to land upon as I typed "fluxuate" into google to get a spelling suggestion because MS Word wouldn't give me a damned result.
Hahaha, even though it's a year old it still brought me a laugh!
justushanna.net
The reason you cannot pull anything in MS word or anywhere else for "fluxuate" is because it is spelled "FLUCTUATE"
Mmm, there must be a lot of people misspelling this word and then typing it into google. Why not try using an actual dictionary?
Apparently I can't spell either.
Wow. What a co-inky-dink. I ended up here because of the same reason. "Fluxuate" should be a real word because of the word's root (flex).
"Why not try using an actual dictionary?"
because google-ing it saves me valuable time. Its all about efficiency. (I too am here because of fluxuate...)Which brings me to an interesting thought... what if you created a site full off common mispellings and slapped that baby full of adsense... could you make money? hmm....
"fluxuate" seems to be a common mistake. give us a break. im here because of that damn word as well.
Oh and my deepest gratitude to "Anonymous" for giving me the correct spelling :)
In answer to the question "Why not try using an actual dictionary" is that when on a computer it is simply faster to just type it into google and let him check it for you. we might not know how to spell, but were no fools on the efficiency front :) lol
This post is rapidly becoming the top landing page for my blog.
Thanks for all of your comments--but, honestly, is it really that efficient to type a misspelled word into google? You did that with "fluxuate" and it sent you here, to a poetry and culture blog...where you have to rely on the spelling suggestion of another random person.
So, again, I say unto you, dear readers, the dictionary is actually quite efficient. There are even, gasp, dictionary sites on the web...
You can't use a dictionary to look up "fluctuate" if you think it starts with "flux."
Google takes initiative and prods you to the right place, while a dictionary just sits there smiling as it waits for you to use it correctly.
It's kind of amusing to find a crossroad of the web where everyone winds up here because they misspell 'fluxuate'. Almost...poetic... in its way, and an appropriate way to wind up here.
Weighing in on the google thing; if I have a half-assed idea of how to spell something the dictionary works fine, and 90 percent of the time I'll just type a word into Word and get the spelling correction, but for those of us who spell 'aurally' and we've wandered so far off base that the dictionary is about as usefull as asking directions on a back country road and getting an answer like "well, if you five miles back to where the old Johnson place used to be..." -google works great with it's handy, 'did you mean...'
and then you wind up here which seems like a very nice blog.
I am one those wander who end up in this blog while searching "fluxuate" . i think google has really something for this blog and people most of the time don't realise "fluxtate" is a wrong usage( i am one of them but not any more) .
You have to love the internets and the google. I landed here just like everyone else. I blame the teachers/parents/word/bill gates.
Wow, you must get so many hits on your blog from this. At least the name is concise so we realise
'Oh, right. I'm an idiot.'
Which was a tad embarrassing for an advanced english student... it's quite strange actually, there being no reference between flux and fluctuate in the dictionary (which I checked first) considering it must be the root word and then the fact that it was changed from x to ct when it was verb-i-fied...
Couldn't believe I was mispelling fluxuate..... I broke it down... flux - u - ate..... I am a simple guy and it all added up to me. That is until I googled it (for efficiency since the google search is on my toolbar, and I do not have to drop down the dictionary link from my favorites...)
Lorraine, did you think you would have a long running blog over a misspelled word??
I had to chime in, as an English teacher who also found this blog trying to spell "fluxuate".
haha also typed fluxuate. couldn't figure out why MS word wouldnt give me a correct spelling. lol good laughs.
Ok so I'm not another google spell checker looking for 'Fluxuate' and finding this web page. I really wonder how many hits this page gets from folks looking for that spelling and don't leave comments? Everyone should at least say hi!!! :0)
Hi!!!
I'm a bad speller too and couldnt get a hit in WORD for fuxuat either! LOL Too funny
For sure!!!
One more for fluxuate! Word Perfect was stumpted, so like oh-so many before me, I looked to goole to clue me in.
How funny is this?
i'm here for the exact same reason hahah
Wow, I'm not the only one. I don't feel like such a jackass now :P
+1, glad this was here :)
Why not use a dictionary??
Because I would be nowhere near the FUC's...
Id be in the FUX's
+1
Wow. Now can you add me to the list of "fluxuate" mis-spellers. Shoot!! And I was so convinced that I was right.
I ended up here because i tried to get a defintion of fluxuate but i guess its flucuate
hahaha there's a whole clan of us who can't spell the damn word right!
(to the original post, not the comments on it):
the *exact* same situation just happened to me!
word.
Add me to the list of 'fluxuate' people...I think I grew up watching too much Star Trek (like the episode 'State of Flux') and Back to the Future (flux capacitor). It seems like the word may be mutating from its correct definition to that of a slang definition that means something like fluctuation, change or turmoil. I don't have a slang dictionary so it might even be there... anyway maybe a Microsoft guy will see this and update Word...or a dictionary guy...ha my word verifiction is 'preti'...see there are so many word jumbles nowadays our mental lexicons are being bombarded with obfuscations!
Ha, same here. MS word kept giving me random stuff, so I googled fluxuate, and came to here.
I am the 'speller' in my family & was mildly surprised to find there is no 'x' in fluctuate. Just goes to show how we've come to murder the punctuation of words in our language.
Never would have found it in the dictionary...didn't have all day to go through the f's.
What a neat blog. Add me to the list. !
First, cudos to the first anonymous for giving the correct spelling of fluxuate :)
Second, as for Google spell check efficiently, usually it better than having to find dictionary or the dictionary site. At least until it landed me here and I spent 5-10 minutes reading though the other experiences like my own. It was a nice diversion though.
Pretty funny coincidence!
ps. I'm the 35 year old son of a school teacher and grandson of a college professor and still can't spell my way out of a paper bag. Spell check is my favorite computer feature by far.
felt convicted to at least say "Hi".... I think if a majority of people spell something incorrectly, it should become the "correct" spelling, kinda like adding slang to a dictionary. I also think "night" should be spelled "nite"....
Christina adds....
Finishing my MBA leaves a wide margin for improvement :D
So Glad I spelled it and saw it happen here...Friday I am scheduled to give a big presentation on Solar Energy and the insulation in provides against the fluxuation ;-) of Oil prices...
Better here than there...
Nice Blog site..
WOW! How funny is this. We all couldn't spell the same word and all had the same way to solve our problem. What a great example of an on-line community.
Very cool.
Yours in bad spelling,
Hi all! Add me to the list of frustrated "flux"uators:) I just realized how I probably have never had to type(or write)this damn word. It had me stumped, although I did type the correct spelling first, and then thought better of it:) It is hilarious how long this blog has continued. Happy spelling & Thanksgiving...M~
Same. Fluxuate<>Fluctuate.
This is great, it is the only page I found that shows fluxuate to actually be FLUCTUATE!
I am yet ANOTHER fluxuate seeker.. fluctuate or fluxuate.. me also being a child of star wars and back to the future, i tend to lean towards spelling it as fluxuate and only decided to google to win a bet. after reading all this i was still unclear as to which spelling form it should take. so i wikipedia'd it, and guess what, it does not recognise either spelling. great stuff!
The root of Fluctuate is FLUMEN, Latin for river.
Add me to your list. I tried flexuate in Word (which I think would be a really neat yoga word) but it didn't help. Googled and here I am, too.
For all you wise crackers suggesting use of a dictionary to spell a word...Don't you need to know HOW to spell a word to look it up? Think of something a bit more original. Especially when posting somewhere where apparently everyone finds the spot BECAUSE they were spelling the word incorrectly
woah, I'm here for the same reason. fluxate.
We should contact the folks at Oxford English Dictionary and tell them to add an alternative spelling. I like our's better. Fluxuate.
Someone should send this link to Oxford English Dictionary. They can add an alternative spelling. I like our's better. Fluxuate.
I would have never became a lawyer without spellchecker.
I am here like everyone else and could not help but be amused at the comments. A nice break from dissertation writing.
A dissertation has been spared in this case!
I tried the dictionary and came up with nothing, since I obviously, at this late stage in my life and education, did not know how to spell fluxuate!
Thank you...to everyone else for helping me not feel alone in this matter.
Looks like I am next in line for having the inability to spell the grand word that is: fluctuate. At least this gave me a laugh as I plod through my paper.
Yes, I have a dictionary on my shelf. In all fairness it is a French/English dictionary and that certainly was not going to help my cause.
So much for hooked on phonics.
Johann
Just like the rest of you another fish caught on this hook of mis spelling fortune i end up here because of FLUXUATE. i really think we should get it in the dictionary. we can do this if we get the word advertised enough lol. they added stupid stuff like va va voom and suckin-diesel into it so why not the fluxuate :D
also i think a diciontary controdicts it self. what happens if your like me and just carnt spell . you pic a dictionary up and you know it starts with F and sounds like FLUX YOU ATE so you start looking for it but nothing is found :( then after many countless hours of searching you find it. but after all this its 2am and your eyes are opened onley by match sticks and your basciley asleep. but best of it is your 200000 word essay is titeled the fluxuation of the ftse 100 over the last 10 years. your totally boogered now as you spent your hole night looking for how to spell the titel. imagne how much time this really wastes to people who carnt spell. HENCE WHY we just google it...... took me around 20 seconds to send up here have a drink of water and look at some random stuff infront of me. so good time saving method :D also for a word google DEFINE then your word and it spells it right WITH AN ONLINE DICTIONARY.
and like chea
MR Nev
p.s i wont read this page again i guess unless i miss spell fluxuate
have fun and bye bye
What better page for bad spellers to land upon but a poetry site where people appreciate the written word and enjoy its use. Perhaps the site will rub off on the rest of us and get us spelling better?? p.s. yes I blatantly spell checked this before posting and I got here by the same route as everyone else :-)
K. Lorraine Graham: The web's preeminent authority on the correct spelling of 'fluctuate' and moderator of the premier discussion forum on the topic.
Thank you!
Haha, you got me! And on the same day as Tristan, no less. Thanks for the good laugh everyone; the comments are great. Why WORD can't have a decent spell-checker on its programs is beyond me (you pay enough for it), unless to catch unwary college student unawares. I'll not forget fluCTuate now!
Faye Bond
Add one more to the list - I wouldn't normally but it's fun how many of us came here for the same reason.
I can't really blame Word spell-check, though, "x" is not really intuitively related to "tc".
I will remember it, though! Thanks K!
this is the best thing i've seen all day!! at first i wasn't gonna question the spelling...and yet here i am. don't know what made me come here instead of going straight to dictionary.com like i usually do but i'm glad i did : ) i will never spell fluxuate...i mean fluctuate incorrectly again!
I too was perplexed by fluxuate/fluctuate. Then finding this blog and what has resulted made my night. It's a crowning achievement for strange and wonderful community building!
Fluxuate is defined as the place where all the truly intelligent people on the planet converge for a reality check. Thank the all-knowing all-powerful god-of-your-choice that only the really really intelligent people don't care to know how to spell fluctuate correctly. It's two different worlds - I mean words!
Haha! Yet another "fluxuate"er. This is great. I was convinced that Word was wrong. After all, people use the term "in flux" to represent a time of fluctuation. Not "in flucts."
Oh well, now I'll never forget how to correctly spell that damn word!
Hmm... fluctuate... good to know!
This flucs
What a cool inevitable pocket of the internet...
It's like a series of people ran off a condemned ramp on the information superhighway and formed a community,
then drafted a poorly spelled constitution :)
Geeze! I too am here for simply trying to spell "fluxuate"!!
Love and Hugs to you all!!!
---Lady Yemaya
add me to the pile. i just googled "fluxuate" and ended up here. fwiw, google toolbar is often much faster to look up spelling than going to an online dictionary. and also you sometimes find little islands like this. :) *that's* why i use google to look up words. (i cannot spell seperate or ocasionally either ;) )
Well now, does anyone have a comment on the post? Cause I don't, chalk up another for fluxuate :( This is what happens when you go to college for science...spelling goes right out the damn window! I didn't actually realize the title until I read the rest of the post, good times.
cheers for the site; another person who couldn't spell it;
peace
I'm afraid I'm another who's wrongly spelled the word as "fluxuate"!
It's amazing to think that most people, in hindsight, pronounce the word fluXuate, rather than the correct way of fluCTuate. Don't get me wrong...I am one of those people!! Oops...
Has anyone noticed that most of the people who have come here, trying to figure out why Microsoft Word does not accept "fluxuate," have come here while trying to type some sort of large paper or presentation (ie: college paper, dissertation, presentation, etc)? What does that tell you about:
1.How often the word fluctuate is written? and,
2.How little the English language makes sense?
Luck!
Add another one to the list. Hope this saves my final exam.
I love this website
All of us fluxuate misspellers!
Add me to this ever growing list.
I'm in the same boat as all ya'll
Haha. Very glad I'm not the only one who can't spell this word. I'm nowhere even close to being the only one.
Glad this page existed...
In my opinion it should be a legitimate alternative spelling. I feel that we become complacent with spelling because of spell checkers, so it is good that we find a word that makes us stop and think for ourselves for a moment. Cheers
i also am here because of fluxuate.
i also am writing a college paper.
i actually like the 'mis-spelled' version better. maybe i will start a revolution...
I even tried the Thesaurus in MS.Word for "to change" which didn't give me what I wanted before I resorted to googling.
I ended up here writing an email to explain energy usage calculations for a cell tower site. What a nice diversion.
Hi to all my fellow "fluxuaters".
Southern Girl
Haha, I love this page. I assumed it was fluxuate too... oops. Thanks to the genius title :)
i'd vote for fluxuate over fluctuate anytime
I've throughly enjoyed stumbling on this web page. I couldn't remember how to spell "fluctuate" and Word wouldn't get me close so I resorted in trying to find it through Google. Strangely, it didn't say "Did you mean: fluctuate" but instead said "See results for: dictionary" (and 21,400 matches for "fluxuate").
Sorry to contribute to the hijacking of your blog! :) Best wishes to everyone.
Too bad "fluxuate.com" is being cyber-squatted!
Another stranded browser, caught up in the "fluxuate" dilemma. I'm actually writing a long-range plan for work. Amazing, this all really is quite poetic.
I guess a lot of us can't spell. I just googled "fluxuate" and landed here, too! If enough people misspell the word, might it evenshually become the accepted verzion?
A better question at this point, I think, is why isn't MS Word smart enough to realize how common of a misspelling that is and fix spell check so it suggests the correct spelling?
someone should send this thread to someone's secretary at the Webster Company
+1 to the "fluxuate" list.
Cheers.
damn MS word im here cause of the same reason
This is hysterical! I pride myself on spelling and was so frustrated when I couldn't find any suggestions for "fluxuating." Who knew? I know if I use "fluctuating" in the email I'm trying to compose, the recipient will think I'm a real idiot! I love that this discussion has gone on for so long, and seemingly has no end it sight!
Why not change the word to "fluxuate?" Yes, there are so many people mistaking the spelling of this word that BY COMMON USAGE, the spelling should be changed!
i feel like a complete dumb ass. cuz i did the same thing as all you retards... haha. and
I can't beleive this post is almost a year old! It's like we're "united by fluxuate." So funny! ((((laughing))))
But at least I can spell it now.
i finally turned to google after ms word and merriam webster online had no suggestions for me. i think the problem might be that the word "flux" is confusing us all.
This is HILARIOUS!!!! Can we just start a petition to spell "fluctuate" with an X??? i have spelled it that way my whole life, and thought i was a great speller. so is 'flux' not a word either? Well, it's nice to meet you all. Good luck with your further fluctuations...XOXO
Add another to the list. I used the root word flux to get my misspelling. Then hit google and here I am.
just another google user attempting to spell fluCtuate :) haha
ding ding ding.. google search for spelling.. lol..
This is the most incredible thing that I have ever found on the internet.
I just read this entire thread of replies... amazing.
I am also guilty of 'fluxuate,' swearing at Word, and googling the non-word.
Cheers!
Wow! I can't believe this has been a problem for so long! Hahahaha, I'm trying to write an english paper and couldn't spell the word either. I seem to follow chris with attempting to use "flux" as the root. Again, wow...this is amazing and actually made me smile while being miserably overloaded with homework!! =)
Good job fellow fluxuate-ers!
Wahoo! The Fluxuate-ers, I'm your newest pilgram. Thanks for making my day much brighter!
Also, if you tried to look fluxuate in the dictionary to get a result, you won't, becasue you'd be on the wrong page and jsut as flustered as before. Not only would this waste your time trying to FIND a dictionary, but also trying to find the word in the darned book!
Weird the EXACT same thing just happened to me and the first google result that came up was your blog!
Add me to the list of fluxuate spellers. Amazing how many of us can't spell.
Thanks for the correction!
haha I'm going to shoot myself for landing here :)
This is hilarious! I did the same thing! What a weird, weird world...
LOL. Thanks for the laugh. Add me to the list of "Fluxuators"
Me too... my other huge spelling fury was at the word "Tenet," but I thought it was pronounced "Tenant" and had a horrible time convincing someone who had no idea what I was talking about that I wasn't crazy.
Well, me too. I felt I had to leave a comment as a member of this really bizarre 'community.' The web makes for some interesting connections.
Well. I misspelled it too.
*KILLSELF*
Count me as one more "fluxuator" This is one more unexpected web nexus point - an great illustration of a dynamic, emergent web. I wonder if there is any way to count these nodes to find out how many there are - I have stumbled on a handful. Monetizing this would be great, but even better would be finding a way to harness and channel the underlying process that causes these thing to form and persist...
Hi! I ended up here to because of "fluxuate". What is a dictionary?
Yep... Fluxuate is why I'm here as well. Hello everyone! This is a much nicer crowd than the one I just ran into in my lame attempt tonight to figure out why "disparency" wasn't coming back as a correctly spelled word (yes, I now know that it is "disparity"...).
Thanks to the power of the Internet, none of my co-workers know that I'm a 100% total loser when it comes to spelling. What a concept!
WOOO FLUXUATE!!!!
I always hated in elementary school when teachers got mad at me when i couldn't find a word in the dictionary. IF I KNEW HOW TO SPELL I WOULDN'T NEED TO LOOK IT UP!
I love technology.
A friend directed me to this blog by telling me to look up "flaxuate" on google.
Obviously you people have too much time on your hands to be able to take time off writing your reports/papers to post a lengthy comment. The idea of all of you congragating over a simple spelling mistake is very disturbing to the picture of society.
But hey, who am I to judge. After all, i'm sitting here just like the rest of you, wasting my time critisizing this blog and all it's participants, myself included.
lol, i just did the same in word, banged it into google and got this page, how funny is that? I cant believe the number of comments either!
Mike,
SpyderHosting
I too landed here looking for the correct spelling for fluxuate - and it has been going on for over a year - with English professors and everything! GREAT! LOL!!
I'll add my post to the people who found this page trying to spell fluxuate. I think MS word should supply the correct spelling, seeing as I'm obviously not the only one who thought it was an 'x' instead of a 'c'.
Hate to say it, but I'm here from using Google as a spell-checker too.
Another Fluxuate,
Spell checking with the “Google,”
Now, back to my work.
I found my way here taking the same path as most others, Word then Google to here. :) Thanks to this wonderfully amusing waste of my last twenty or so minutes I will always remember the correct spelling of fluctuate. :)
Well, I'm here, too. I was starting to doubt that "fluxuate" was actually a word. I even looked it up at dictionary.com and there was no hope. So, I resorted to google. I kinda feel bad for the blogger, though. If it makes you feel better, I started to read your other posts, too.
Yeah. Fluctuate. My bad.
I'm a fluxuate offender too.
What's really stupid is that not only MS Word, but Google Chrome's spell check has no suggestion for it as well. Even when you do a google search, there's no suggestion either. Usually Google makes a suggestion if you spell the word wrong.
Another misspell-er of "fluctuate" as "fluxuate". Thank goodness for this blog, Google, and the internet. :) Cheers all!
I flux'd ma weigh hear. lol
Guilty of the flux.
Ironic the apparent fluctuation of the spelling of fluxuate.
This blogg will last years haahah.
I too am a dumb flux-er
Ah, so that's how you spell "fluctuate". Thank you.
i think i found this blog like everyone else .... by trying to spell fluctuate - but as fluxuate .... it's not our fault we all spell phonetically lol
uh, wow. I landed here because I couldn't figure out why I didn't get a word def on fluxuate... lol!
Um, yes, I be MLIAing this now.
I love you all! No, I didn't misspell fluctuate, although I probably will now, after reading this. Actually I was just bored so I was reading MLIA and someone had posted on there that they had found this, so I thought I'd check it out. Thank you all for giving me something to do between my classes. <3
i cant spell either
wow i cant believe i spelled it wrong too LOL
man i too came here trying to find the correct spelling of "fluxuate"
at least i know i am not alone
So, you expect people to actually get off the computer, go find a dictionary, and spend who knows how long trying to find a word I can't spell instead of just swapping windows and Googling it in about 5 seconds? What planet are you from K. Lorraine Graham?
You are an aberration!!
I'm not even sure I own a dictionary...
Thanks for telling me the correct speelling.
Aha thought I might add that I as well came upon this page while trying to find the correct spelling of fluctuate...
Another failed "fluxuate"tor.
Whoever first spelled the word as "fluctuate" had a horribly mean spirited sense of humor. :[
Add me to the list. I feel like I am in a special club of misfits.
Add me to the list. I feel like I am in a special club of misphitts.
I'm a librarian and I find Google to be much faster by far than deciding which dictionary to use and then flipping through pages and pages of the alphabet to find what I'm looking for - this site was such an added plus, connecting with other phonetically challenged people is so much more fun than my boring Webster's.
Quit being such a stiff about the spelling; everyone here knows the majority of us only came here because we googled "fluxuate"...screw the dictionary!
Ha, same problem as everyone else. Glad to see there are a bunch of other people who made the same spelling error.
Yep, fluxuate - fluctuate just isn't what comes to mind naturally. couldn't understand why msword wouldn't give a result either...glad to see I'm in good company. :D
bahah.
I feel so much better that there are this many other people who also cant spell this stupid word.
Webster needs to read this!
Hahahahahahaha...this just made my day :) I'm writing a long and monotonous paper for my European History class and when I went to google to find the correct spelling it directed me here too! maybe someone should tell msword to add that to their spellcheck since it seems there are many people with this problem lol :)
Someone tell Bill Gates to add "fluxuate" to the word corrections.This has got to be the funniest thing that's happened to me all day. I'm curious, is everyone using MS Word 2003?
A long paper to be writing.
Here I am instead.
Fluxuate is poetry.
haha. I am also here for the word fluxuate...
Just adding the comment to make sure the year 2010 was here in your comments. :D
also felt the need to sign the fluxuate guest book.
xoxoxox
I think we're practically a revolution now.
Bad spellers untie (or fluxuate?)
It makes you wonder how many people looked up the word here and didnt comment.
It just happened to me and I used to be a pretty decent speller... not anymore I guess :(
Almost three years later here I am, adding my name to the list. You'd think fluxuate would be an accepted alternate spelling by now...
Ditto... I feel like I entered a time rift and the only thing that changed was the accepted spelling of this word.
I'm in the middle of an experimental research paper, and I misspelled it too. I bet when this guy titled his blog, he never knew he'd get such a cult following. The anthropological consequences of this situation fascinate me.
Hehe, I'm here for the same reason...I feel really silly, now, 'cause I tried to spell it "fluxuate". Wow, judging by this post, it seems I'm not the only one. Thanks, everyone!
fluctuate fluctuate fluctuate
I was hoping I was the first idiot of 2010 to land here as I read through the comments. this is like a Fluctuate Anonymous club now isn't it? Hehe.
Thanks for this post, just took another 5 minute of my time instead of writing my paper.
This is an epic thread. So glad I'm not the only Google spell checker out there!
Great site by the way, I'll have to stop by more often for a visit.
Cheers
Writing this stupid %#$%-ing research paper and couldn't figure out why Word wouldn't let me spell fluxuate... It looks like I'm in good company here :-).
I am a good speller! I know I have spelled "fluctuate" correctly in the past...but I certainly don't feel so badly now!
I used to be a good speller! In fact, I feel fairly certain I have spelled fluctuate correctly in the past. I'm glad to know I'm not alone!
it should be fluxuate, that only makes sense. fluctuate doesnt make any sense at all
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