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@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ That release will go through each of these three stages:
 
 **In development**: during this time the release lives in the master branch and
 is considered unstable. All pull requests merged during this time will land in
-this version. Only developers are encouraged to run this version.
+the release. Only developers are encouraged to run this version.
 
 **Release candidate**: at some point (usually when development is fairly quiet),
-SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate (often 2 weeks in
-advance). When the two weeks are up, a branch is cut (i.e. 0.8-rc1) and from
-that point only bugfix pull requests land in this branch. Each morning, if
-bugfixes landed during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC phase,
-more adventurous users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for and
-reporting bugs (especially in new features).
+SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate, often 2 weeks in
+advance. When the two weeks are up, a branch is cut (i.e. 0.8-rc1) and from
+that point only bugfixex land in this branch. Each morning, if bugfixes landed
+during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC phase, more adventurous
+users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for and reporting bugs
+(especially in new features).
 
 **Stable release**: when no substantial changes are merged into an RC for one
 week, it's released as a new stable version of sway. At this point, all users