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We have FTP server (europe.pub)
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[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about ways to justify "have a ftp" server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce 'ftp' not as 'eff-tee-pee' but literally as 'ftp', a vowelless word.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Maybe ‘feh-teh-peh’, but yeah, sometimes I see ‘an’ or ‘a’ where I don't expect them and am left wondering about mysterious ways of the English language