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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Armstrong's corotwine library. Thanks to Dan Pascu for reviewing the package.
 
 Another new package, eventlet.green, was added to provide some of the standard modules
 that are fixed not to block other greenlets. This is an alternative to monkey-patching
-the socket, which is impossible to do if you are running twisted's reactor.
+the socket, which is impossible to do if you are running twisted reactor.
 The package includes socket, httplib, urllib2.
 
 Much of the core functionality has been refactored and cleaned up, including the removal
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ by having a try: finally: block around the greenlet's main implementation. The e
 module has been ported to this new scheme, although it's signature had to change slightly so
 existing code that used the backdoor will have to be modified.
 
-A number of bugs related to unproper scheduling of switch calls has been fixed.
+A number of bugs related to improper scheduling of switch calls has been fixed.
 The fixed functions and classes include api.trampoline, api.sleep, coros.event,
 coros.semaphore, coros.queue.