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@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Basic plant sensor kit which currently outputs;
 
 Hardware interface based loosly on recollection of Martin Howse's
 experiements with the Wheatstone Bridge[1] and incorporates parts of a
-design published by Rob Faludi[2] which in turn based on a design by
-Forrest Mims, with nods to L. Geroge Lawrence, Botanicalls and the
+design published by Rob Faludi[2] which was in turn based on a design
+by Forrest Mims, with nods to L. George Lawrence, Botanicalls and the
 long and tangled path from Jagdish Chandra Bose.
 
 [1] during piskel08