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 Profanity
 =========
 
-Profanity is a console based jabber client inspired by [Irssi](http://www.irssi.org/),
+Profanity is a console based XMPP client inspired by [Irssi](http://www.irssi.org/),
 
 ![alt tag](http://www.profanity.im/images/prof-1.png)