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The slow art of hiding things in plain alphabetical sight.
means The act of organizing documents into a system, or officially submitting paperwork to an authority.
from From 'file,' which comes via French 'filer' from Latin 'filum,' meaning 'thread.' The link is delightfully literal: clerks once kept papers in order by stringing them onto an actual thread or wire, so a 'file' was originally a line of documents threaded together — a far cry from today's cabinets, but the same impulse to keep things on a single tidy line.
- origin word
- From Latin filum, a thread papers were strung on
- lost forever
- Most filed documents are never opened again
- physical proof
- Old files were literally skewered on a string
- tax day
- Millions file taxes in the final 24 hours
- metal too
- A nail file does the opposite: removing material
panama papers — 11.5 million leaked documents from mossack fonseca law firm in 2016 exposed offshore tax filing schemes
project alicia — fbi's filing system that caught al capone through tax records in 1931
wikileaks cablegate — 251,287 classified us diplomatic cables filed and leaked starting in 2010