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Land of Typos: Part Steak

Posted by: Samantha Enslen, president and senior editor, November 4th, 2009

filet-mignonProject manager Amy writes to say that she found a unique spellout for “FTP” today in a technical document we were editing: “Filet Transfer Protocol.” (For those of you who don’t know, FTP actually stands for File Transfer Protocol, and refers to the transfer of data from one computer to another.)

Great catch, Amy! Just another example of helping our clients look like superstars instead of dorks.

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