diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ What kinds of things do we want to log?
     - the line number just executed
     - all data created by the program
 
-  Also log calls and returns of a student's function 
+  Also file calls and returns of a student's function 
   (but NOT library functions)
 
 We can use the Python JSON module to encode data structures in JSON and