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A&P Show
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Agricultural & Pastoral Show
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All Blacks
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New Zealand Rugby Team
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All Whites
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New Zealand Soccer Team
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ANZAC
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Baby Blacks
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New Zealand Junior Rugby Team
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Bach
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Holiday house (North Island term, derived from 'bachelor home')
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Banger
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A sausage or old car
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Big OE
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'Overseas Experience' (long trip)
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Bikkie
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Biscuit
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Bit of a problem
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A real worry
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Black Caps
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New Zealand Cricket Team
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Black Sticks
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New Zealand Hockey Team
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Bloke
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A man
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Bludger
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Somebody who tries to get something for free
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Bobby calf
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Young male calf
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Brekkie
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Breakfast
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Bring a plate
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Bring a plate of food to a dinner or a party
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Bro
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A male friend
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Brolly
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Umbrella
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Bugger
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A gentle swear word
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Bush
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Native forest
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Buzzy Bee
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Iconic New Zealand wooden toy
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BYO
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Bring Your Own (alcohol into a restaurant for example)
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Chilly bin
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Cool box for a picnic to store cold items
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Chinwag
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Conversation
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Chippie
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A carpenter
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Choice!
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Great!
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Chook
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Chicken
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Chuffed
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Proud and happy
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Chur
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A parting remark like cheers as in 'Chur bro'
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Crib
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Holiday house (South Island term)
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Crook
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Feeling sick
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Cuppa
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Cup of tea or coffee
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Cuz or Cuzzie
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Cousin or a friend
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Dag
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A bit of a joker, dags can also be found on a sheep's bottom
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Dairy
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Corner shop
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Doing a donut
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Boyracers spinning their cars in a tight circle
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Dunny
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Toilet
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Easy as
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No problem
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Footrot Flats
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Famous comic books about typical Kiwi rural life
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Footy
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Rugby
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Godzone
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God's own country, New Zealand of course
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Good as gold
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All good
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Good on ya
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Positive affirmation, 'good for you'
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Good sort
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A good person
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Gumboots
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Rubber boots or Wellies, originally gumdigger boots
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Gumdigger
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Finding buried Kauri gum (hardened resin)
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Gutted
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| Disappointed
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Handle
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A glass of beer
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Hard case
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Something or someone funny or crazy
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Have a go
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Try something
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Hokey pokey
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Icecream with vanilla flavour and honey comb bits
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Hoon
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A young fast driver in a car
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Hottie
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Hot water bottle or attractive person
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Huntaway
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Dog bred for barking skills
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In the sticks
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Rural
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JAFA
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'Just another * Aucklander'
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Jaffa
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Chocolate orange bikkie and type of seedless Orange
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Jandals
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Japanese sandals - Flip Flops
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Jogger
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| This word was first ever used in Auckland in 1962
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Joker
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A regular bloke
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Jug
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A water kettle or large measure of beer
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Kai
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'Food' in Maori language
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Kiwi
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A New Zealander, a flightless bird or a green fruit
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Kumara
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Sweet potatoe
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L&P
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Lemon & Paeroa - a drink 'World famous in New Zealand'
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Longdrop
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Outside composting toilet
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Mainland
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The South Island
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Maori
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Indigenous New Zealander
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Marae
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Maori meeting house
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Mate
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A friend
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Metal road
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Unsealed gravel road
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Mountain oysters
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Ram testicles
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Mucking in
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Helping
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No worries
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No problem
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Pakeha
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New Zealander of European origin
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Pavlova
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New Zealand dessert with fruit, cream and meringue
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Pikelet
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A small pancake
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Pokies
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A gambling machine
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POM
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'Prisoner of Mother England' - half-derogatory for an English person
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Reserve
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Public recreational area
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RSA
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The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association
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Scarfie
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Scarf wearing Otago students
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Shark & Taties
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Fish n'Chips
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She'll be right
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All will be ok
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Shout
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| Offering a drink or something
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Sickie
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Take a day off sick
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Silver Ferns
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New Zealand Netball Team
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Smoko
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Once 'Smoking break', now commonly used for taking a work break
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Station
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Large farm
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Stubbie
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Small bottle of beer
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Stubbies
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Very short men's shorts
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Swanndri
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Typical outdoor clothing for farmers
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Sweet as
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Great!
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Ta
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Thanks
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Tall Blacks
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New Zealand Basketball Team
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Tea
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A cuppa or evening meal
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Tiki tour
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Sightseeing tour
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Tinny
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Small metal boat
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Togs
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Swimsuit
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Townies
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City people
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Tramping
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Hiking
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True
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Really? As in 'Joe called.' 'Ah true?'
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Ute
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Utility vehicle or pickup truck
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Veges
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Vegetables
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Wopwops
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Out in the sticks
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Youse
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'You' plural
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